Cat's Eye | | Cast : | Drew Barrymore, James Woods | | Director : | Lewis Teague | | Studio : | Warner Home Video | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen | | Released Date : | April 12, 1985 | | DVD Released Date : | October 05, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | July 07, 2005 | | Summary | Three By King | Content
 | A cat on the run provides the focus for a trio of tales from Stephen King. The cat finds itself in the city where it sees a vision of a girl asking it for help. Shortly after the cat is grabbed and put in the first story.
The cat finds itself as a test animal at a stop-smoking clinic run by Alan King. The success of the clinic is not based on psychology or diet, but on extortion and torture. The cat manages to get away.
As the cat tries to cross a busy Vegas street, he becomes the subject of a bet and winds up in a penthouse suite were a deadly game is to be played out. James Woods has been having an affair with the penthouse owner's wife. To protect his life he must follow a ledge all the way around the building.
Finally, the cat manages to reach the home of a young Drew Barrymore where he becomes a pet. No sooner does he arrive than we find out the girl is being menaced by a creature that lives in her bedroom wall. Only the cat can save her from the diminutive menace.
While technically an anthology movie, this one works a little better than most. Following the cat through the stories really is an effective way of tying the separate tales together. The third tale is the weakest and that is probably from the lack of a strong acting presence like in the first two stories. But all in all the film works and is entertaining right to the very end scene. Check it out. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 21, 2005 | | Summary | DON'T LOSE THAT LOVIN FELINE | Content
| Stephen King's CAT'S EYE is reminiscent of the seventies anthology movies like TALES THAT WITNESS MADNESS or HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD. King's dark humor pervades throughout. In the opening sequence, the cat is chased by a crazed dog (Cujo) and almost run over by a car (Christine). The cat's misadventures frame the three stories involved. In the first, "Quitters Inc." the cat finds himself a guinea pig at a weird smoke cessation outfit, run by a sinister Alan King. James Wood stars as the man who finds out that kicking the habit isn't quite so easy and the repercussions for failure painfully wrought. The cat escapes from here and ends up the new companion for a weasly gambler who is about to extinguish his wife's tennisboy lover in a most unique fashion. He makes him walk the five inch ledge of a high rise and offers him everything if he can make it. Kenneth McMillan is the gleeful gambler and Robert Hays (Airplane) the unfortunate lover. Tabby once again escapes, however, and ends up with Drew Barrymore and her parents (Candy Clark, James Naughton). Tabby has to fight a nasty troll in this one.
The movie is well paced and entertaining with good performances especially from Wood and McMillan. The special effects for an early 80s movie are appropriate and CAT'S EYE emerges as one of King's better film efforts. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 18, 2005 | | Summary | Cat's Eye, like Creepshow 2. | Content
| CAT'S EYE is a great little anthology. Three horror stories, "Quitters, Inc.", "The Ledge" & "The General".
Stories from BEST to WORST:
1. Quitters, Inc. *****
2. The Ledge ****
3. The General ***1/2
If you like CREEPSHOW 2, you'll enjoy CAT'S EYE.
My rating overall: 80% |
| Rating | | | Date | May 13, 2005 | | Summary | One great story, two disappointing ones. | Content
| This is a trilogy of short movies (~30 min each) very loosely connected by a cat that plays a very minor role in the first and second, and a significant role in the third. None of the stories is a horror movie, if this is what you are looking for. Rather, think of it as King's version of The Twilight Zone.
The first story - Quitters Inc. - is great. It features a very unusual smoking cessation program, and ends in a classic Twilight Zone/The Outer Limits fashion. It is well written, well played, and keeps you on the edge of your seat throughout.
The second story - The Ledge - has great potential, but is very disappointing. It tells the story of a man who enters a dangerous wager with a sadistic mobster. It ends in a very tepid and unsurprising fashion. King really messed up this one.
The third story - Every Breath You Take - is a childish, phantasmagoric, and disappointing story about a little girl visited by an evil troll. Here the cat plays a significant role by trying to save the little girl.
Overall, this is a very poor production, but is worth watching for the first story alone. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 11, 2005 | | Summary | A cat is a God in the wings of life | Content
| Three short films in one long film tied up by the perigrination of a cat looking for the girl who is going to adopt it as a pet. The cat will find the girl. The first adventure reveals the obsession of smoking in a society that considers that activity as a quasi-crime. Some people are ready to do anything to quit and the society is also ready to do anything to force the reluctant candidates to quitting to quit. The procedure is to punish the people the smoker loves to make him - in this film it is only men that are concerned, and we do have to question why - quit and stick to his decision. This reveals a society that has privatized such a mission and this mission becomes criminal in its own way, even if the ethical aim is to be considered. To torture innocent people may be effective but it is unethical in all possible ways. The second adventure has to do with betting among high life criminals : the rich who make their dough from all kinds of illegal activities, such as drugs. And what happens when the stake of the bet is the wife of one crook ? Criminal challenges, murder and vengeance. Breath taking and unbearable for people who suffer of vertigo. Funny too in the reversal of the situation from one vengeance to the next. The third story is more humane and dark at the same time. Cats are nice pets but here a mother has a fixation against such an animal and is ready to do anything to get rid of it. But cats are obstinate and children, here a girl, are also very powerfully determined to get their ways. The « Kobold » is absolutely charming in its evilness though I prefer the good « Kobolds » I have met so often in germanic traditions. But its end is definitely Dante-like. There must be a special hell for these vicious and obnoxious beings that only want to hurt and wound if not even kill poor little defenseless children. But cats are definitely not defenseless, far from it. Careful with children : to watch such a film might give them nightmares with many boogeymen in them.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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