Cat Girl (1957) is the movie for this Sunday's "monsterdon" watch party over on Mastodon, our fediverse sibling!
- Just start watching that movie this Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 9pm ET / 8pm CT / 6pm PT which is 1am Monday UTC
- and follow #monsterdon over on mastodon for live commentary. For example, you can follow that hashtag here: https://mastodon.social/tags/monsterdon
- I usually open two web browser windows on a computer side-by-side. But you could follow the mastodon commentary on a phone app while watching the movie on TV or something.
How to watch the movie:
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7yjiYA_HR0
- tubi (US, England, Canada, Australia, NZ?): https://tubitv.com/movies/496372/the-cat-girl
- uBlock Origin adblocker should work on those tubi and youtube links
- archive: https://archive.org/details/catgirl1957_201910
- someone plans to stream it on https://miru.miyaku.media/ at that time
- if you want to pay and/or watch ads, look here: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/cat-girl-1957
Leonora Johnson is a young woman who returns to her ancestral home and is told by her uncle of her legacy โ she will inherit the large ancestral home and money, but also a family curse: she will be possessed by the spirit of a leopard, as members of her family have been for centuries.
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[Director Alfred] Shaugnessy later wrote "Barbara Shelley was lovely in the film and gave a most uninhibited and dramatic performance. Indeed, she was so good in it that I believe it condemned her to a long career in horror pictures."[9]
Variety called it "weak in all departments".[10]
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "This film inevitably invites adverse comparison with the more successful Cat People [1942]. Nevertheless it is not a negligible minor essay in the horror genre, after a poor start. Barbara Shelley is a little heavy-handed but none the less effective as Leonora."[11]
In British Sound Films: The Studio Years 1928โ1959 David Quinlan rated the film as "average", writing: "Britains scream-queen-to-be's first taste of horror: faily silly, it has some chills."
