Moonlitlady: K's Happy Birthday Octoberween

Octoberween Day 10 goes out to my little sister who was born on this day a few years back who loves cheese popcorn, Horror Movies and Animals. So today we are looking at Spooky Cat stories, black cats, cat people, and catwomen.

The Black Cat

1934 Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
Staring Béla Lugosi Boris Karloff David Manners and Julie Bishop

Honeymooning in Hungary, Joan and Peter Allison share their train compartment with Dr. Vitus Verdegast, a courtly but tragic man who is returning to the remains of the town he defended before becoming a prisoner of war for fifteen years. When their hotel-bound bus crashes in a mountain storm and Joan is injured, the travelers seek refuge in the home. The film has several nods to Edgar Allan Poes "Black Cat" www.dailymotion.com/...

this Black Cat should not be confused with The Black Cat also stars Bela Lagosi, however unlike the first Black Cat this 1941 Directed by Albert S. Rogell also stars Basil Rathbone Alan Ladd and Anne Gwynne and in this movies Even Ladd is scared! Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first. youtu.be/EfnkDAG1GZk

Honorable mention goes out to Bringing up Baby with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant and a leopard named Baby.

CATWOMAN BLUE Julie Newmar by MY-METAL-HAND

Then we have Cat People in 1942 Directed by Jacques Tourneur starring Simone Simon Tom Conway and Elizabeth Russell about a Sketch artist Irena Dubrovna (Simon) and American architect Oliver Reed (Smith) fall in love and marry after a brief courtship. But Irena believes that she suffers from an ancient curse and won't consummate the union for fear that she will turn into a panther compelled to kill her lover. youtu.be/0ADPSaybusM

As mentioned in our Edgar Allan Poe Octoberween special
The Tomb of Ligeia from 1964 was Directed by Roger Corman about a man haunted by the spirit of his dead wife and her effect on his second marriage. Even on her wedding night the headstrong young bride must share the man she loved with the "female thing" that lived in the Tomb of the Cat!

then we have Night of a thousand cats or otherwise called "blood feast" a 1972 film about Millionaire playboy Hugo flies around Acapulco in his private helicopter to pick up sexy young women. He whisks them away to his secluded old castle, where he wines and dines them. With the aid of his bald mute little helper Gorgo, he kills his dates, keeping their heads in a crystal cage and feeding their chopped up body parts to his 1,000-strong army of blood thirty, flesh hungry cats. This is a mexican movie and a René Cardona Jr.-flick and it is my firm belief that everyone of his films are worth watching, at least once. youtu.be/5fQYy9CXcMs

Catwoman - Chat Noir by rafaelalbuquerqueart

Also as a big fan of Fritz the Cat I am posting the 1972 release of one of the Fritz the Cat movies. youtu.be/htIbDWhd93o Its not a horror movie but I love it just the same.

Cat People in 1982 After years of separation, Irina (Nastassja Kinski) and her minister brother, Paul (Malcolm McDowell), reunite in New Orleans in this erotic tale of the supernatural. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irina is drawn to the cat -- and the zoo curator (John Heard) is drawn to her. Soon, Irina's brother will have to reveal the family secret: that when sexually aroused, they turn into predatory jungle cats. youtu.be/qYFF12n3hgw

in 1985 we had Cats eye three shorts from Stephen King tied together by one menacing cat really only two out of three are good, but they can't all be winners, but hey it has James Woods and Drew Barrymore! youtu.be/ZVUCwN57nbU

Then my favorite of favorites Sleepwalkers made in 1992 once again a Stephen King story made into a movie about two Cat people a mother and a son out to feed on unwitting virgins. I was still pretty young when I saw this movie and found it rather disturbing however I think that had more to do with the awesome song "Sleepwalk" by Santo and Johnny which is our song of the day. Enjoy! youtu.be/1st_9KudWB0

Black Cat Halloween Cookies Ingredients

1 cup butter (no substitutes), softened
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
3 teaspoons vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup baking cocoa (we use dutch processed cocoa)
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
24 wooden craft sticks
48 pieces candy corn
24 red-hot candies
OPTIONAL FLAVORING: a tablespoon of cinnamon for a Mexican chocolate taste, OR a tablespoon (or less, to taste) of instant espresso powder.

Directions

In a mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt; gradually add to the creamed mixture. Roll dough into 1-1/2-in. balls. Place 3 in. apart on lightly greased baking sheets.

Insert a wooden stick into each cookie. Flatten with a glass dipped in sugar. Pinch top of cookie to form ears. For whiskers, press a fork twice into each cookie. Bake at 350 degrees F for 10-12 minutes or until cookies are set. Remove from the oven; immediately press on candy corn for eyes and red-hots for noses. Remove to wire racks to cool.