Cat's eye (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Cat's eye |
| Original title | Cat's eye |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1985 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lewis Teague |
| script | Stephen King |
| production | Dino De Laurentiis , Martha Schumacher |
| music | Alan Silvestri |
| camera | Jack Cardiff |
| cut | Scott Conrad |
| occupation | |
Part of Quitter's Inc.
Part of the wall projection
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Cat's Eye (also called Cat's Eye ) is an American horror episode film from 1985.
action
The stories are linked by the fact that the same cat appears in all three episodes.
Part 1
In the first part, Quitters, Inc. , Richard Morrison turns to Dr. Vinnie Donatti ran Quitter's Inc. to quit smoking. As he fills out the registration form, a woman hobbles in. Her husband apologizes to her and disappears with her to the elevator.
In Donatti's room, he learns that the latter closes the conversation that his relatives will be tortured if he smokes again. The first offense will be to shock your wife with electric batons. How this works is demonstrated to him with the cat that was caught by animal catchers in the city center. A second offense would be his mentally handicapped daughter's turn, a third offense would rape his wife, and if another offense, Quitter's Inc. would assume their program had failed and they would kill him.
Quitter's Inc. employees spy on Morrison to find out about offenses. On the first night, when a heavy thunderstorm was taking place outside, he wanted to smoke in his study, he heard a noise in the closet. Armed with an umbrella, he looks inside and sees rubber boots under his jackets, and his golf equipment falls out of the closet. He throws the umbrella in the closet in shock, whereupon he hears an "ouch". When he realizes that there is actually someone in the closet, he loudly emphasizes that he hadn't lit the cigarette and only wanted to get his golf clubs and that he should tell Mr. Donatti that he hadn't smoked at all. Then he goes back to bed. Afterwards you can see that a small puddle of water has formed on the floor of the cupboard and small drops (probably from a raincoat) are still falling to the floor.
Even at a party (ironically, Every Breath You Take is played at this one ) Morrison can still resist because he hallucinates, but in the end the spies actually catch him in a moment of weakness. He lights a cigarette during a traffic jam. Result: one kidnaps his wife and tortures her with electric shocks. During a fight in Donatti's room, the cage with the cat falls from the table and the cat escapes onto a ship.
At the end of Part 1 or Part 3 (depending on the version): Morrison gained four kilograms in six months after quitting smoking. Donatti gives him diet pills that are not approved in the USA and says he shouldn't weigh more than 82.5 kilograms. Morrison jokingly replies that if he exceeded this weight by a few grams, a man with a flamethrower would probably be sent into his house. Donatti says no and says with a smile that he would then send a man to Morrison's house to cut off his wife's little finger. Finally, you see Morrison, Donatti and a couple of friends of the Morrisons eating. When toasting to the newly minted non-smoker Morrison, he notices the missing two links of the little finger on the friend's wife.
At the end of part 1, the cat runs through a harbor into the city center, among other things, it has to cross a busy street. On the red carpet of a gala, two gangsters - one of them Cressner - bet $ 2,000 on whether she will make it across the street before the gala. After a long hesitation, the cat flits across the lanes, arrives safe and sound, but triggers an accident.
Part 2
In the second part, The Wall Projection, tennis instructor Johnny Norris, who is afraid of heights, is caught by two gangsters, stowed in the car and forced by her boss Cressner to circle the cornice along the top floor of a high-rise building. In this way, Cressner punishes him for the relationship with his wife. Cressner packs the morbid game into a bet: If Norris manages to go around the building unharmed, he will receive $ 20,000 and Cressner's wife. Should he refuse, a few kilograms of heroin would be slipped on him and handed over to the police, where he is already on record because of a previous drug offense.
Cressner tries to scare Norris by various means (red rag, horn, fire hose). When he has to go through the apartment on the top floor, he almost stumbles over the cat lying on the doorstep to the balcony. A pigeon pecking at Norris' feet does the rest. In the last few meters, the cat watches him as he passes the neon sign of the hotel, which he outlines but gets caught on the power cable, which Norris can use to climb back onto the ledge. After observing this, Cressner is already finishing his prize with his bodyguard. The cat observes this and then escapes.
Norris barely manages to circumnavigate and Cressner explains that although he is a bad loser, he is still willing to keep his word. He tosses Norris a bag containing the promised $ 20,000 and the head of Cressner's wife. Norris, who really loved her, goes berserk, gets to the gun of the bodyguard and shoots Cressner's bodyguard. Then he forces the gang boss himself to go around the projection of the wall. He is not as lucky as Norris and falls to his death when he struggles with a pigeon.
The cat drives into the country on the back of a pickup truck.
part 3
There she runs to the third part of Amanda's family. However, your parents don't want the cat to stay indoors.
The girl takes the cat to bed with her and one learns from Amanda the next evening that she is being threatened by a vicious, goblin-like creature that lives in the wall of her bedroom, and that the cat was protecting her from the creature last night Has. However, her parents do not believe her and do not allow the cat into the house, which Amanda describes as "the general". Instead, they try to make Amanda fear cats (cats steal the breath from children). Ultimately, however, no parent wants to be responsible for it.
During the night the goblin comes out of the wall and stabs Amanda's budgie. When the goblin wants to take on Amanda, the cat comes into the room over a tree in the garden. She is hit with a throwing dagger by the goblin and knocks over the cage with the dead bird. Amanda's parents think the cat killed the budgie. Amanda's father finds the cat and sees the injury the goblin inflicted on it. He does not manage to convince his wife that a budgie could not harm the cat that much. This catches the cat and takes it to an animal shelter, where it is ultimately to be killed and cremated in a gas chamber ("Euthanasia Room").
During the feeding, the cat escapes and arrives just in time for the fight against the goblin, who this time even wedged the door to Amanda's nursery from the inside and was just stealing Amanda's breath. The cat catches the goblin in a glass, but the goblin escapes. He tries to slip into the hole in the wall where he lives, but is unable to because the entrance is blocked with a fallen book. He then tries to save himself on a record player. The cat switches on the turntable (Every Breath You Take from Part 1 sounds) and increases the number of revolutions. This hurls the goblin into the fan of an air conditioning system. Only then do Amanda's parents manage to open the door and get into the room. There they find the dismembered remains of the goblin, the thumb-length dagger with which the goblin wounded the cat, and see the hole in the wall that the goblin was unable to close because of his death, thus confirming Amanda's story.
Amanda blackmails the parents to stop telling the story only if the cat is allowed to stay with them. The parents see no other choice and agree. In the last shot of the film, the viewer sees how the cat, after gnawing off a fish, hops on Amanda's bed and gently wakes her up by licking her lower lip. Amanda wakes up with a happy smile and happily hugs the cat.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on April 16, 1985 that the third part was the best. All three parts would live from the special effects, which Ebert praised as "efficient" and "restrained". The "crazy unrealistic" stories would have the appeal of the "extraordinary" style of Twilight Zone .
Prisma-online wrote that the director Lewis Teague convinces in his film with "some varied and funny ideas between the suspense of Alfred Hitchcock and" Twilight Zone "." The special effects and the camera work were also successful.
The lexicon of international films praised the film as "a well-made, exciting and varied entertainment cinema with lots of humor, for viewers with good nerves."
Awards
Drew Barrymore was nominated for the Young Artist Award in 1986. Lewis Teague was nominated in 1987 for an award from the Festival Internacional de Cinema do Porto (Fantasporto).
backgrounds
The production of the film cost about 7 million US dollars . It grossed about $ 13.1 million in US theaters. The short stories Quitters, Inc. and The Wall Projection are from the Night Shift short story collection .
The song played in the credits is Cat's Eye by Ray Stephens.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times, accessed March 20, 2008
- ^ Prisma-online, accessed March 19, 2008
- ↑ Cat's Eye in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on March 19, 2008
- ↑ Gross profit on boxofficemojo.com
Web links
- Cat's Eye in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cat's Eye at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Cat's Eye at Metacritic (English)
- Cat's Eye in the online film database