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Greetings, and welcome back to Horror Business. We have a BANGER of an episode in store for you guys: it’s our 100^th episode and we’re joined by Al White and Josh Alvarez to help usher it in!  We’re talking about four of our favorite (and not so favorite) remakes: Cat People, Night Of The Living Dead, Dawn Of The Dead, and Evil Dead.

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Up first is Cat People. We discuss the history of the production of the film and how Paul Schreider wishes he had made the film as an original story instead of a loose remake. We talk about the symbolism present in the film of devotion and worship of something dangerous. We discuss some of the shortcomings of the film, including the underwhelming use of actor Annette O’Toole and the lackluster somewhat misogynistic ending. Al brings up how the film opens up a lot of neat ideas and narrative threads but doesn’t follow up on a lot of them. The rules of the werecat and how confusing they are is brough up. The film as an archetypical ‘80s horror film is discussed, and Justin talks about how the film strikes him as similar to The Wolfen.

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