It's released to run wild on four paws
And it feasts on a child with its jaws
But there, too, is a man
With a zoophile plan
He's a beast wielding filed metal claws.
David Cairns
James Bell and Jean Brooks in the Val Lewton production The Leopard Man (Jacques Tourneur; 1943). This mystery-thriller is an early attempt at depicting what is now known as a serial killer.
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