The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
Directed by Robert Wise
Amy, the young, friendless daughter of Oliver and Alice Reed, befriends her father's late first wife and an aging, reclusive actress.
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What critics compared The Curse of the Cat People to
A haunting heartbreaker, "Labyrinth" belongs in a class with director Bernard Rose's spellbinding psychological thriller "Paperhouse" and Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise's "The Curse of the Cat People" as one of the few films that dares to enter a troubled child's mind to sympathetically sort out the contents.
The sequences in which Maleficent slowly takes Aurora into her trust and her home have the delicate poignance of The Curse of the Cat People, in which former bad girl Simone Simon embraced little Ann Carter in the world of daydreams and butterflies.
This debut feature by Andres Muschietti uses Lewton's The Curse of the Cat People as its template, probing the dark recesses of a child's imagination and considering the role of maternal figures in fairy tales.