Cat Person (2023)

February 19, 2024 11:02 AM

An adaptation of Kristen Roupenian’s viral short story “Cat Person” (archive) published in The New Yorker during the height of #MeToo. Trailer. Streaming on Hulu.

NYT: A Viral Short Story Padded for the Big Screen (archive)
Vulture: Cat Person Is Cringe Horror (archive)
RogerEbert.com

Previously on MetaFilter: one, two, three

posted by ShooBoo (4 comments total)

This movie is a mess.

The most interesting aspect to me is that Robert's cats are named Yon and Mu, which are the names of Junji Ito's cats
featured in Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu. I kept waiting for that to be some kind of punchline, but it was just ... there.

I'm not sure if this was meant to be a funny story played for horror or a horror movie played for laughs. I get the tone it was trying to get to but it failed in every aspect.

(I have a complicated relationship with the original short story, too, as well as its history.)
posted by edencosmic at 1:53 PM on February 19

I'm disappointed that this just missed coming out forty years after Cat People (1982), and eighty years after Cat People (1942). If it had come out in '22, I would have been compelled to watch it, because how could you not? As it stands, I'll probably give it a miss.
posted by kittens for breakfast at 2:02 PM on February 19

Casting Nicholas Braun after the allegations against him was both unfortunate and weirdly appropriate, in a meta way. I refuse to watch this because of the Braun allegations.
posted by pxe2000 at 8:19 AM on February 20

Well, that's unfortunate. I guess instead I will watch Isabella Rossellini as a shrimp mating with other shrimp in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-CA9CNk_Xc
posted by rmd1023 at 1:39 PM on February 22 [3 favorites]