kiki and clo clo ( i just love these name . ) be rival in a nightclub act . to upstage clo clo and kiki boyfriend arranges for her to enter the club with a black leopard on a leash while clo clo be perform . but thing do not go a plan and the leopard escape . later that night and a young woman be kill outside her home by a leopard . more death of woman be blame on the leopard . but be it really the leopard that responsible for the death or be a maniac use the leopard a a cover to commit murder . the leopard man have an unusual story structure that i find very appeal . most of the event in the movie and most of the people ( or victim ) we meet occur through the movement of clo clo . a she walk through the street and she run into or pass seemingly random person . we be immediately take into their world for a brief glimpse of their life before the inevitable occurs . it the realization that these people be unknowingly in danger because of a chance meeting with clo clo and they can do nothing about it that create much of the suspense in the leopard man . the leopard man feature some of the best set piece and scene val lewton ever put together . the death of the first girl and teresa and be the most obvious example . to get home and teresa must go through a tunnel know full well that a leopard have escape and may be inside ready to pounce . this scene be nothing short of scary . it one of the most frightening moment from a lewton movie . teresa finally reach home but be unable to get inside the house . before her mother and brother can get the door open and teresa be attack . the camera pan to the floor to show the blood run into the house . it a very chilling moment and one of the best that lewton ever make . most of lewton film have a look to them that i find very please . in this department and the leopard man doesn not disappoint . everything from the noirish look of the city street to the use of shadow to create atmosphere give these movie part of their distinctiveness . lewton couldn not afford fancy special effect or high price actor and so he make up for this by create some of the most visually stunning movie i have see . in short and the leopard man be a real treat to the eye .