Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

BloodTheTelepathicDog A married couple purchase a rural home so they can raise their daughter in a better atmosphere. Soon thereafter, they find out that their new country dreamhouse is ruled by evil feral cats, hell bent on killing anything that moves, or doesn't move, as a pine tree gets assailed.You'll laugh often, when you aren't suppose to, but the suspense was there, thanks to highly underrated actress Kathleen Quinlan, portraying the mother.Okay for a one time viewing, especially if you want to laugh at cats killing people. Although the ringleader of the ferals was a evil looking creature, who looked as if it would rather be shooting a Friskies commercial, than pestering poor Kathleen Quinlan.Claudia Christian was the most deviant vixen in this film however, those mangy sinister felines had nothing on her.

TonyDood Is it a horror movie? A spoof? Are the movie's creators really trying to rip-off Fatal Attraction? Is this a movie about an alternative universe? I don't know.All I know is one night I was flipping channels and saw Timothy Busfield wrestling with a soggy kitty puppet and throwing it around his kitchen and had one of the best laughs of my entire life.I spent the next few years searching for this movie.When I finally saw it again and watched the whole thing I was bored to tears and irritated by the stupidity of the characters and late 80's "TV movie" budget. Then I got my money's worth.I love cats, don't get me wrong, but I find something inherently, cruelly, disturbingly funny about cats being abused in movies (ex: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation), and this one tops them all. See: **cats being flung at windshields**Kathleen Quinlan tossing (fake) cats around like dirty socks after she thinks they're eating her baby**K.Q. in the same scene squeezing a cat up against the wall with the door after it attacks her hateful girl-child. The cat grunts on the soundtrack, and I'm rolling on the couch in paroxysms of laughter**Timothy Busfield in a career-ending wrestling match with a gamey, fur covered puppet. He throws it out the window, chucks it into a microwave and threatens it with electroshock therapy, but it keeps coming back for more, always accompanied by those great stock "cat screech" sound f/x used in comedies.People who have an unhealthy love of cats as "cute, darling little pets" should stay away, they won't be amused. For the rest of us, who recognize that cats are cute but have claws and fangs for a reason (to kill things with) and think they're kind of weird and creepy even at the best of times, there are some unforgetful laff-out-loud moments.I'm laughing as I write this, thinking about the last scene. Thank you, Hollywood, for this stupid, stupid movie!!

Eric-1226 I've heard of a "wolf pack" (think Nazi U-boats). I've heard of the "Rat Pack" (think Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. etc.). Now we have the "Cat Pack": think gang of furry ferocious crazed felines on a bloodthirsty rampage in some old house out in the middle of nowhere, terrorizing a hapless young family, and you basically have the premise for this movie.I can't say it's entirely a bad premise, but unfortunately it doesn't come off well in this movie. 'Lame and un-scary' doesn't begin to describe this mess of a film. My overall reaction: much like you'd do with a bad kitty who claws the sofa legs, you want to take a rolled up newspaper and give this movie a good swat on the rear end.The acting by everyone involved is embarrasing (especially the wife and kid, who, traumatized by cat-induced fear and shock, overplay their overblown reactions so bad that you'd swear you'd seen better acting in your junior high school play). As for Claudia Christian, who later went on to fame and fortune in Babylon 5 as Susan Ivanova, well, the less said the better.A great theme song for this movie would have been "Psycho Killer" by the Talking Heads - only with the name and lyrics changed to "Psycho Kitty". Now that would have been a nice touch. Meow. Purrrrrr.

arielle-2 I just saw this today and it was so ridiculously cheap and silly I had to give it a whole whopping "6". How an 8 lb. cat can knock down a 180 lb. man I will never understand but little details like that just don't seem to matter in this movie. One of my favorite scenes is the artsy little shot of the yellow rubber ducky floating over the edge of the flooded bath tub....oh, the subtle innuendos-Yeah right! Check it out if your'e sittin' around & it comes on the tube...or if you really hate cats. Otherwise don't bother unless you want to give your kids nightmares so they'll stop begging you to keep that adorable little kitty.