Another installment in BBC2's early morning run of early horror/Jacques Tourneur classics. If Cat People was a horror, but came on like a noir, could not the same be said of IWWAZ? True, the supernatural isn't typically a feature of the archetypal gritty urban noir, but the complex, slightly choppy plot, remote island location and chiaroscuro photography are pure noir.
Having heard the Roky Erikson song back in the day (or, at least, REM's cover of it), I was expecting more of a gaudy, psychedelic, trashy affair (yeah, I know, 1943, too early for that). A better film than Cat People.
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