A Mexican curiosity that is certainly not full of nuance and subtlety. Let's see what this trashy Film with a great Title is like...
He has money. He has ladies. He has a cat.
He's also a little bit crazy.
What kind of secrets is he hiding?!?
He speaks to his current lady about how he sees her as beautiful and wishes that he could keep her around forever.
If he could, he explains, he'd keep her head in a glass jar like his decanter.
Romantic?!?
The Title comes in as we learn that he keeps a large cage full of cats. There's no way he has a thousand, but The Night of 1,000 Cats sounds better than The Night of Around 247 Cats.
Oh and he kills people, feeding their flesh to his cats.
I wish that this was the first time I saw this Plot Point.
Here's the part where I break some bad news to you- this Film is really lacking in variety and content.
I wish that this was the first time I saw this Plot Point.
It just barely goes past the 1 hour mark and it has lots of filler involving this helicopter.
This device has nearly the same amount of Screen Time as the Cats!
As the Film goes on, he turns on everyone around him, even his Mute Butler.
This device has nearly the same amount of Screen Time as the Cats!
That last bit is almost comedic as the Film cuts from him losing a Chess Game to the Butler...and right to him being served to the Cats.
His women get more intense and detailed deaths, since, you know, casual misogyny.
The Final Girl- long before that become a Trope- sees Stiglitz's secret work of Art- his Collection of Heads!
She fights back, but is also a little bit dumb while doing so.
Who holds a Halberd...and then throws it?!?
The Cats escape their cage and eat Stiglitz, but the FG escapes narrowly.
Now she can go back to her Husband...who she was cheating on...and her Daughter...who she left behind to cheat on her Husband. Hurray?
By the number stuff...when it bothers to have a Plot. The Film is very aimless and full of more filler than most packages you get in the Mail. We get lots of lounging. We get lots of the Helicopter. We get many random shots of the Cats. We get EVEN MORE of the Helicopter. We sometimes see the random ancillary Characters like the kid and the Husband. That's a real thankless role! When we finally get some content, it is alot of Stiglitz just being weird. There are some artistic moments like the shot I featured of him with the glass and one where they cross-cut between him hunting and a woman being chased by the Butler. Do you get the symbolism? Do you?!? I wish there was more here between those moments. Instead, you get a Film about as long as Psycho Shark (aka Jaws in Japan) and with about 30% more content than that Film. The concept here- a crazy, rich guy kills people for his art- has real potential. You just need more than a good idea to make a Film and you don't get it here. I'm also glossing over some light animal abuse (nothing fatal)- grabbing cats and throwing them a few times. It isn't like the one I exposed Bob to in that Herzog Film. The Night of 1,000 Cats is a Film that screams for a Remake- not to be confused with this alternate Title that makes it sound like a Remake of a different Film...
A bit of exploitation that doesn't really have any meat to it. Yes, I meant to make that pun.
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