8 Minutes Idle (2012)

Starring: Sinsir

Directed by: Mark Simon Hewis

This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning!

Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!

Synopsis: Based on the book by Matt Thorne. Dan (Tom Hughes) is a slacker who ends up having to live secretly at the call center where he works when he gets booted from his mother’s home.

Featured Feline: Dan owns a ginger tabby cat named John. He is carrying John down the stairs at the beginning of the film.

8 Minutes Idle - ginger tabby cat John Sinsir being carried down stairs

He is still holding John as he looks into the refrigerator.

8 Minutes Idle - Dan Tom Hughes holding ginger tabby cat John Sinsir while looking in refrigerator

8 Minutes Idle - Dan Tom Hughes holding ginger tabby cat John Sinsir while looking in refrigerator animated gif

John is eating from a bowl on the floor when John’s mother (Pippa Haywood) starts berating him about letting his father into the house while she was gone.

8 Minutes Idle - Dan Tom Hughes being yelled at by mother with ginger tabby cat John Sinsir in background

She kicks both Dan and John out of the house.

8 Minutes Idle - Dan Tom Hughes holding ginger tabby cat John Sinsir with mother Pippa Haywood

Dan takes John on the bus in a cardboard box and sneaks a peek at him.

8 Minutes Idle - ginger tabby cat John Sinsir inside cardboard box

Once at work, John places the box above the ceiling tiles in the bathroom. Later he sees the box overturned and John missing. Realizing his cat is hungry, Dan resorts to taking a fish from the office aquarium to feed John.

8 Minutes Idle - Dan Tom Hughes offering ginger tabby cat John Sinsir a fish in ceiling

Dan then realizes he has been locked into the bathroom for the night. John is not impressed with the new arrangements.

8 Minutes Idle - ginger tabby cat John Sinsir in ceiling

Dan curls up with John in the ceiling to sleep.

8 Minutes Idle - Dan Tom Hughes sleeping next to ginger tabby cat John Sinsir in box

8 Minutes Idle - Dan Tom Hughes sleeping next to ginger tabby cat John Sinsir animated gif

Another night, Dan shows John the fish tank where he has been getting his dinners.

8 Minutes Idle - Dan Tom Hughes holding ginger tabby cat John Sinsir by aquarium

John sleeps in a utility closet with Dan that night.

8 Minutes Idle - Dan Tom Hughes sleeping with ginger tabby cat John Sinsir

The cat reacts to the sound of Dan having sex with his boss Alice (Montserrat Lombard).

8 Minutes Idle - ginger tabby cat John Sinsir above ceiling tiles

Kitty Carnage Warning! The film takes a disturbing (and frankly unforgivable) turn when John goes missing. Dan’s co-worker and possible love interest Teri (Ophelia Lovibond) searches above the ceiling tiles for him. She ends up crashing down into Alice’s office, holding the stiff body of John (whom we assume is a fake cat). They discover that John choked to death on the used condom from Dan and Alice’s affair. At least Dan looks positively horrified at this realization.