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Summary: Hello Kitty Thriller
Comment: This movie was one of my best movies. It mixes the scary side of a movie with the family as well. I really enjoyed the acting and the inclusion of the baby in the movie. This movie is alot like the hand that rocks the cradle except the babysitter was the cats. It was very fullfilling and entertaining. Don't sleep on this made for tv movie these are thest best thrillers.
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Summary: Good Kitty!
Comment: I saw this movie on tv a couple of years ago and laughed myself silly. At the time I had a cat that looked identical to the nasty kitty in this film. Good B-Movie! No microwaving kitty!!!
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Summary: NO STRUTTIN HERE
Comment: I first saw this movie about five or six years ago and my two cats were enthralled with it...one of the few they even paid attention to. Alas and alack, those two pets are long gone, but my wife and I have three cats now so we thought, what the heck...maybe these three will enjoy it as much as our previous two. WRONG!!! They could have cared less..and that about sums up the movie. If you can't get cats involved, how can humans enjoy it? To be fair, STRAYS isn't gag your mouth bad, but it's so inane and inept, it's hard to be frightened. Shame on Kathleen Quinlan for giving such a horrible performance; shame on Timothy Busfield for not retiring; and shame on Claudia Christian for playing such a shallow character with little if any venom. Shame on the cats for overacting; shame on Shaun Cassidy for writing such a non-frightening movie. Shame on me for trying to subject my cats to it!!!
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Summary: Darn silly
Comment: "Strays" was a made-for-TV movie produced by the USA network. According to some sources it was the worst made-for-TV movie USA ever made. That tells you something right there.The premise for this movie is one of the hoariest old cliche's in horror-movie land; urbanite family moves to the country to escape the dangers of city life, unaware of the danger lurking around their new home. "Strays" adds nothing to this routine. Now basing a movie around a hoary old cliche without the slightest significant variation doesn't necessarily make it a "bad" movie, it just prevents it from becoming a "great" movie.
What makes "Strays" a bad movie is its incedibly poor execution. First, contrary to title's plurality there is really only one cat in the who actually causes any harm to the heroes. Oh there are lots of cats around, but only one does anything more than hiss and bare its claws to the heroes. So basically our heroes are meanced to near histeria by one single ordinary albeit foul tempered house cat.
Actually I shouldn't say "ordinary." This cat repeatedly breaks the laws of physics. It tears down a wall to get at a victim, bursts out of a microwave it has been trapped in and makes enourmous leaps into small spaces with perfect accuracy. Of course,no explanation is given for how this cat is able to accomplish these herculean feats, it's just a regular, cheesed off cat.
Now one would not think a cheesed off cat would provide horror so much as mild irritation. However, our heroes are incapable of dealing with this feline fiend in a remotely effective way. The cat leaps on them and they seem incapable of prying it off. On the rare occasions they use handy devices as impromptu weapons they ignore potentially useful things in favor of worthless ones (i.e. a long handled paint brush and a jug of water).
This isn't to say that the cats do not actually kill anyone. I counted three human deaths in this movie, two were surprised by a cat and fell to their deaths, one was apparently crushed by the sheer weight of the cats. Apparently the thought of killer house cats was too menacing, so the producers gave us killer house cats who can only kill by using their victims' sheer stupidity.
On the first viewing, "Strays" will dumbfound you with its sheer awfulness. The second viewing (if any) will have you rolling on the floor laughing at its monumental absurdity. By the third viewing you will realize you wasted your money by getting it, so don't.
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Summary: Odd little horror movie
Comment: This movie isn't necessarily BAD...I just wouldn't call it GOOD. Its actually kind of neat, as far as horror movies go, the characters weren't unlikeable, and the concepts are all solid but...its not scary.I mean...the bad guy is a house cat! I thought through out the whole movie "He's...kind of cute." So what if he attacks people, so does my cat. I don't scream and run away and lock doors and call the police. I throw him on the couch. That shows him who the dominant male is. The shots of cats swatting against the camera made me laugh more than shriek, and I have to wonder how cats are able to latch on to people's necks and make themselves incapable of being thrown off. Its not like cats have tentacles that wrap around you, and I doubt a domesticated cat has the power of nine men. Plus the main villain cat in this movie wasn't evil, he just needed to be neutered. I guess this is really a fine showcase of how to not take care of cats: don't treat them well and they'll lead prolitariate revolutions against you.
By the way, know what the shocking closing shot of this movie is? A kitten. Oooooooooooh!! Scary!!! My pants are drenched!!
