Thursday, February 18, 2010

wolfen (1981)

Unknown.
Rebecca Neff (Diane Venora) is a criminal psychologist helping Detective Dewey Wilson (Albert Finney) solve the murder of a prominent businessman. She goes home one night jittery about the case and her cat manages to scares her!

the corpse grinders (1971)

Baby Song (?)
and many unnamed others.
A cat food company uses corpses as their secret ingredient, which has the side effect of turning the cats onto fresh human meat!

Sunday, February 14, 2010

kuroneko (1968)

Yone.
The title means "Black Cat" in English, and based on a Japanese folktale The Cats Return. So its pretty obvious that there would be a cat in here somewhere. A mother and her daugher in law are raped and murdered by some bandits and return as vampiric cats to reap their revenge on unwary samurai.

re-animator (1985)

Rufus.
He makes a fleeting appearance before becoming an early re-animation experiment for the mad medical student Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs), who is obsessed with bringing the dead back to life.

aliens (1986)

Jonesy
Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and Jonesy are found floating in space and rescued. Then whilst Ripley is persuaded to go back to the alien planet, Jonesy gets to stay back on Earth.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

walk on the wild side (1962)

Unknown
A melodrama staring Jane Fonda amongst others. The most interesting part of the film is the opening title sequence, (by Saul Bass), where a black tom strolls nonchalantly around before picking a fight with a white cat. The slow tracking shots serve to emphasise the grace and majesty of the cat, which is shockingly juxtaposed with the viciousness and brutality of the fight, revealing the cat as a the truly wild animal it really is, as opposed to the pet we would like to believe we own.

that darn cat! (1997)

D. C. (Darn Cat)
Patti Randall (Christina Ricci) is a disaffected 16 year old living in a dull New England town who dreams of some excitement happening. Then Lizzie, the maid of a wealthy woman is kidnapped and the search for the kidnappers hones in on Patti's town. So when DC comes home with a strange watch wrapped round his neck, Patti is convinced this is a clue to the whereabouts of the kidnapped maid. Assigned a novice FBI Agent Kelso (Doug E. Doug) the chase is on to follow DC wherever he goes.
Elvis who stars as DC runs rings around the human actors and is by far the star of this update of the 1965 film.