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Lucio Fulci’s The Black Cat (1981) follows a medium whose mysterious connection to a vengeful cat unleashes a wave of brutal murders in a quiet English village. Lucio Fulci’s Career Shift From Giallo Thrillers to Supernatural Horror Masterpieces During the late 1970s, two films would form the basis of a significant change in Lucio Fulci’s career…
In Denis Héroux’s anthology film The Uncanny (1977), a writer claims cats secretly control humanity and backs it up with three stories that suggest he might be right. From the producing team of Milton Subotsky (purveyor of those omnipresent omnibuses cranked out by Amicus in the early 1970s) and Claude Héroux (the man behind such…
In Roger Corman’s The Tomb of Ligeia (1964), a woman returns from the grave, and her sinister black cat seems fully onboard with the haunting. The Last of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe Adaptations The last of Roger Corman’s Poe adaptations for American International Pictures is unique for several reasons, including the terrific on-location exteriors shot…
An ancient amulet awakens a deadly feline spirit in The Cat Creature (1973), an ABC Movie of the Week from Psycho writer Robert Bloch and Night Tide director Curtis Harrington. Plot In a clever bit of casting, Kent Smith—star of the Val Lewton-produced classicsCat People (1942) and The Curse of the Cat People (1944), which this deliberately pays tribute to—shows…
The Cat (1992) is a Hong Kong sci-fi horror oddity where an alien cat battles monsters, gangsters, and even a guard dog in one of the wildest films ever. Adaptation of the Wisely Pulp Novel Old Cat The Cat may have a simple title, but it contains some of the most bonkers moments in Hong Kong cinema….
Eye of the Cat (1969) follows a scheming nephew and his lover as they plot to kill a wealthy aunt, only to face her vengeful clowder of killer cats. Eye of the Cat‘s splendid and mildly psychedelic pre-opening credits sequence tells us that cats will be front and center in this film. We are only…
House (1977) is a psychedelic Japanese horror-comedy where schoolgirls on vacation face surreal deaths, slapstick horror, and pop-art visuals, set in motion by a ghost cat. House (1977) might be the holy grail of bizarre Japanese cinema, which is both a blessing and a curse. Former TV commercial director Nobuhiko Ohbayashi’s vivid imagination knows no…
Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye (1985) weaves three tales of peril through the eyes of a stray cat who ends up being the hero of the story. In the early 1980s, Stephen King’s movie career flourished, with numerous adaptations of his books and stories making their way to the big screen each year. Cat’s Eye was one…
A wealthy, deranged playboy lures women to his gothic mansion—only to feed them to his army of ravenous cats in this bizarre, surreal slice of ’70s Mexican horror. If director René Cardona Jr. remains infamous to this day, it is largely due to his use of real animals in distressing situations. In Tintorera: Killer Shark (1977), based…
Think Sharknado was wild? Wait until you see Catnado: Tales of Feline Terror (2024), an unhinged, no-budget horror anthology where killer cats rain from the sky and pounce straight into Z-movie infamy. What do you get when you mix the most unpredictable natural disaster with humanity’s most unpredictable pet? The answer is Catnado: Tales of Feline…
What happens when your cute, cuddly cat transforms into a four-legged terror with a vendetta against your love life? Welcome to the twisted, hilarious universe of Nicholas Tana’s Hell’s Kitty. Based on a True Story It may be hard to believe, but this bizarre, laugh-out-loud horror film draws inspiration from a true story. The idea sprang…
In The Legacy (1978), a group of strangers trapped in an English mansion are mysteriously killed off one by one—always in the presence of a white cat. Plot Summary Accepting an interior design job from a mysterious client in London, who offers a hefty advance of £50,000 but remains vague about the specifics, American architect…
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 (1968) is an iconic Japanese horror film where two vengeful spirits haunt samurai in a bamboo grove. Plot Summary 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…
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 (1961) is a classic 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…
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. However, King’s most interesting use of cats would come from one of his strangest…