Are you a Cat Lover?
If not, why are you so dumb?
See why it is right to love your feline overlords in this odd Anthology Film...
In 1977, it is for Horror.
In 2021, it is for Etsy.
The Framing Device has Peter Cushing meeting with Ray Milland to discuss his Book that posits that Cats are evil masterminds.
In 2021, it is for Etsy.
Of course, Milland knows first hand that Frogs are the real Masters!
In the 1912 Story, a woman schemes with the Nephew of a rich Woman to get her money.
She ends up killing the lady and is then attacked by her 10-200 Cats.
She ends up killing the lady and is then attacked by her 10-200 Cats.
This Segment features Cats eating people, 203 shots of cats jumping and one guy being taken out by a single cat somehow biting him in the neck.
Between the Segments, Cushing sees Milland's cat 'talking' to another cat. Uh oh.
In 1975's Segment, a young girl is adopted after her Parents die in a plane crash.
With only her cat named Wellington as a friend, she is treated harshly by the real Daughter.
So, naturally, she uses black magic to kill her...and I guess that cat helps.
As Cushing gets more paranoid, he tells one final tale. This one is set up by a photo of Pleasence as 'Blofeld.'
In the 1936 segment, he's an Actor who stages the death of his wife/co-star with a real Pendulum blade.
He *immediately* replaces her with his Mistress, while also taking time to try and kill the Wife's cat. He also drowns some kittens off-camera, so he deserves to die!
Both are killed by the use of a real iron maiden (for the Film?!?) and off-screen attack respectively.
Cushing leaves without a firm offer from Milland...and is killed by cats like 2 minutes later.
As for Milland, he burns the evidence (only one copy exists?) and feeds his cat. The End.
This one is weird in all of the right ways. It is bloody. It is dark. It is taken really seriously.
It is also a bunch of stories about evil cats...so I found it kind of hilarious. They keep cutting to shots of cats like it is something scary. They keep dropping cats on Actors and coating them in bright red stage blood. They keep using the same 'paw puppet' to swipe at people's hands.
For all intents and purposes, this is a dark, scary Film. It is just also funny as hell to me!
Poor Cushing and company really the wacky premise and act out the Segments fully-seriously. Pleasence hams it up a bit, mind you, but most of them take it straight. Hell, we get a pre-Animal House John Vernon as a Producer! He plays a vaguely-French/vaguely-Romanian guy, so that accent is just a bit silly.
Taken as Segments, they are fine Horror (if you ignore the silly). The fact that it works so well when you aren't laughing at the cat stuff makes it a tricky recommendation. It's not a 'so bad it is good' Film. It is more of a 'what were they thinking' and 'why are so many good Actors in this' kind of Film.
A weird Film that is both visually-intense (with loads of fake blood) and silly as hell For Horror Connoisseurs, it is a hidden gem (of silly).
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