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| IShall_Run_Amok 10/06/22 11:55:20 AM #63: | Cat's Eye, dir. Lewis Teague, 1985 This Stephen King adaptation - a trilogy-style anthology film - is kinda dumb as Hell, but I don't think I was bored for a second, and I imagine I'll enjoy it even more on a re-watch. I think I was disappointed that it was ultimately more of a comedy than a horror movie, except for the final segment, which pits wee Drew Barrymore and the heroic feline against a memorable little troll (a shout-out to the more genuinely scary Trilogy of Terror?). But I can't really dismiss a movie that disappointed me on the basis of my own false assumption, but ultimately entertained me a great deal (the comic performances in the film definitely stand out) and gave me a couple of good laughs ("Oh, fiddlysticks!"). This is a pretty okay movie, and maybe more. The director, Lewis Teague, also directed the deeply underrated Cujo (whose titular character gets a cameo), which is why I took interest in this movie in the first place, and why I expected a straight up horror movie. That said, I'm pretty confident in saying that Creepshow is the better comic horror anthology, and Cujo is the better animal-themed horror movie. 6.5/10 --- I'd like to go on the Dark Web, and look at a picture of a skeleton. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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