(If those names sound at all familiar, it’s because the cult-classic horror film Cat People came from the same creative team.) The movie stars Frances Dee, Tom Conway, and James Ellison; these three play, respectively, nurse Betsy Connell, sugar-cane...

Both versions are preoccupied with the dangers of female sexuality, the beautiful woman as predator, unable to control her desire or identity who must either be killed or live as a caged animal. In recycling this song at such a pivotal moment in the...

Jacques Tourneur didn’t make many movies and is largely forgotten today, but he has a cult following of which I am a part. He made horror films such as “I Walked with a Zombie”, film noirs such as “Out of the Past” and films that exist somewhere in...

Jeff: “Well, there’s a way to lose more slowly.” Every film noir has its unofficial motto. The above exchange works for Out of the Past, Jacques Tourneur’s 1947 detective flick. In film noir, you never win; you just try to stave off losing. The film...

The movie, directed by Jacques Tourneur, better known here as Curse of the Demon has justifiably become a horror classic. Although much of his script was excised (or exorcised), Endfield simply shrugged it off, as he was finally making headway as a...