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...wide-eyed young woman. Alone, she drifts through the airport. Her name is Irena. She is an orphan, a virgin. She turns her head and surveys her surroundings with intent eyes. Their darkness rivals that of her short black hair. Her mouth is wide and seems to have a perpetual pout. She is pretty...
...Irena (Natassia Kinski) is the embodiment of this duality. She is a cat person. Cat people have the peculiar tendency of transforming into black leopards when sexually aroused. They can regain human form only by killing. Only if they mate with their own kind can they avoid this dastardly B-movie fate...
...this is unknown to Irena, when she goes to New Orleans to live with her brother Paul (Malcolm McDowell). Having been raised in orphanages and foster homes, Irena has never met Paul, but she has dreamt about him. Paul has likewise dreamt about Irena--dirty dreams. He too is a cat person...
...these are offered, unfortunately, in the new version, which stars Kinski, flat of voice, spirit and chest, as Irena. There is a fake anthropological prologue in which Hollywood's tribe of all-purpose primitives is seen tethering its maidens rather uncomfortably close to a black leopard's lair, thus establishing Irena's heritage, lost in the mists of the backlot. And there is Malcolm McDowell, quite persuasively feline, as her brother. In his human form he is something of a tomcat, which, of course, means he keeps turning into a big cat, with unfortunate results...
...Irena is a nice girl. She would remain a virgin, if only she could forget about that nice zookeeper (John Heard). If only he could forget about her-which should be easy, since the cheerful and lovely Annette O'Toole plays his first love. Soon Irena is switching back and forth between cat and human forms, though it must be said that her transformations are more fastidious than her brother's, which feature much smoke and bile...