COB's Creepers #16 - Eye of the Cat (1969) - Tuesday 24/10, 8:30pm

[COB]

Oh my

 

[Ellie]

Go kitty!

 

[jivafox]

This is a more believable cat fight than the last one

 

[COB]

Cats famously go mad for a bit of red paint

 

[Ellie]

GET HIM

 

[jivafox]

Yeah go on, kill him

 

[COB]

He's paralysed with fear!

 

[jivafox]

He's paralysed with fear!

Or the doc's dodgy drugs!

 

[COB]

Twist!

 

[jivafox]

GUESSED IT

 

[COB]

Don't drop it you fool!

 

[Ellie]

It’s like the finale on The Birds

 

[jivafox]

She tripped over that one then

 

[VoR]

He's paralysed with fear!

Might one say he’s… catatonic?

 

[COB]

As much as they try and make this scary, I can't help but think THEY'RE ONLY CATS

 

[COB]

Oh love.

 

[jivafox]

Her own fault really!

 

[COB]

Did you know
That there's a
Load of cats in San Francisco

 

[Ellie]

Oh just go back to Poor Dear

 

[Ellie]

FFS, I was expecting that to be like Home Alone with the cats acting as Kevin

 

[COB]

Well there we are! Probably more THRILLER than horror, but I just love the glamour and atmosphere of it all

 

[COB]

I found this article about the cats in the film (mainly the main cat "Tullia", played by Scarface) on my main source of news and information, the Cinema Cats blog:

Eye of the Cat (1969)

Starring: ScarfaceDirected by: David Lowell RichThis review contains Kitty Carnage Warnings!Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains MAJOR spoilers for this film!Synopsis: Wylie (M

cinemacats.com

 

[VoR]

Well that was an anticlimactic ending!

 

[COB]

There is also an entire alternative ending to the film, which can be seen here:


Spoilers: it's essentially the exact same, only instead of the dozens of cats Kassia and Wylie are menaced by Tullia on its own. Presumably there was a studio note about how ludicrous this was and they added the other cats to at least TRY and make it seem more threatening

 

[straightorbroken]

Loved this btw. Popped up in conversation tonight. We'll, I had to explain it, who Eleanor Parker was, all after I brought it all up, but nevertheless it popped up I do still need to look up the location as the scene I love most could be anywhere from San Francisco to getting pushed off Blythswood Square in Glasgow, but I digress.

 

[straightorbroken]

Oh and on a sidebar: "what do your lovers call you?" will be my new dating apps tagline.

 

[Ellie]

EARLY SUBMISSION for @COB later in the year as I just saw this on Amazon FreeVee, and it’s also on YouTube in its entirety.

 

[jivafox]

That was BANNED for years because it was such a blatant rip off of Jaws (using ACTUAL footage from it), and Universal sued them to high heaven

 

[straightorbroken]

I've not seen it yet, but I've got what I think is a Hammer film called The Gorgon (1964). You don't see her in the trailer, but I've seen a small clip and absolutely had to buy it for the image alone. I got it on Blu-Ray.



I also thought: oh that could be a COB Creeper.

 

[jivafox]

The Gorgon is GREAT (one of the few Hammers I actually enjoy ) but it's very slow, very serious, and very SAD.