Blood, lust

Cat People

(1942)

Maybe the best no-budget horror film ever, the semigreat Jacques Tourneur directing the definitive Val Lewton production, in which nothing supernatural is actually seen--only shadows and suggestions and aftermaths--but it scares the bejesus out of you nonetheless. About the only thing that could make it better would be David Bowie's great theme song from the otherwise misbegotten remake--a song whose hook gets to the thematic heart of both films.