Odd, Anglo-Canadian feline horror portmanteau in which horror novelist Peter Cushing tells three terrible tales of supernatural catty menace to disbelieving publisher Ray Milland. In one: Susan Penhaligon is a maid out to get a slice of her cat-loving ma’am Joan Greenwood’s inheritance by suffocating the old cow, only for the feisty felines to scratch her to death in retaliation. In two: a quiet orphan girl has her revenge on her teasing cousin by shrinking her and getting her cat to do her in, with lashings of appallingly-matched back projection shots. And Cushy’s special prize: Donald Pleasance and Samantha Eggar are ’30s Hollywood actors having an affair and doing the former’s wife in with a non-fake ‘fake’ Pit and the Pendulum film studio prop, only for her ginger tom to have the last miaow. Milland sees Cushing out and burns the script – but did his cat tell him to do so? Or did he just think it was rubbish? And lurking in the production credits, good old Milton Subotsky.
Lee James Turnock
May 24, 2010 at 2:21 pm
I still can’t believe this was actually released to cinemas. It’s one of those films that begs the question…was everybody drunk?