Greydon Clark's Uninvited

Uninvited (1988)

In Greydon Clark’s Uninvited (1988), a killer mutant cat terrorizes a group of unsuspecting partiers aboard a luxury yacht. In his autobiography, On the Cheap: My Life in Low Budget Filmmaking, American director/producer Greydon Clark states, “Any picture can be made for any amount. It is just the compromises we’re willing to make.” His methods align with…

Kuroneko

Kuroneko (1968)

Kuroneko (1968) is an iconic Japanese horror film where two vengeful spirits haunt samurai in a bamboo grove. Kaneto Shindô’s terrific companion piece to his highly-regarded Onibaba (1964) is one of the finest ghost movies of the decade. Gintoki (Kichiemon Nakamura) is conscripted to fight in a feudal war. While awaiting his return, a band of passing samurai invade the…

Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End

Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End (2024)

Apocalypse Z: The Beginning (2024) is a Spanish zombie survival movie in which a man and his cat battle to survive in a collapsing world. In the zombie survival world, the weapon-wielding tough guys or fearless heroines usually survive the apocalypse. However, in Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End, the true hero is not a…

The Shadow of the Cat

The Shadow of the Cat (1961)

The Shadow of the Cat (1961) is a gothic horror tale about a vengeful cat that relentlessly stalks those responsible for its owner’s murder, unleashing eerie justice within a shadowy mansion. One cat, nine lives. Whose? Those of the nine occupants in a spacious, stately manor in turn-of-the-century England. The Gothic “house on a haunted hill”…

Sleepwalkers movie

Sleepwalkers (1992)

The Sleepwalkers movie is a chilling Stephen King tale about a mother-son duo of shape-shifting, vampiric creatures with a deadly fear of cats. Author Stephen King is known for prominently featuring felines in a handful of his stories, most notably Pet Sematary and Cat’s Eye, but King’s most interesting use of cats would come from one of his strangest…