by Mark Murton

Original Title: Sidste Time

Directed by: Peter Schmidt

This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning!

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

Synopsis: Low budget Danish slasher film about a group of teenagers locked in their deserted school with a dead body and a maniac stalking the corridors while outside the crew of a sensationalist tabloid TV show wait for the bodies to start piling up. But all of this may not be what it seems.

Kitty Cameo: As the survivors grow ever more desperate to escape, Nicoline (Lena Laub Oksen) takes to the ventilation shafts looking for an exit. Arriving at a barred grating she screams for help until she is startled by a brown tabby cat dropping down on the other side of the grating. Composing herself, Nicoline pleads with the cat, “Come here, kitty. Can you run for help?”

Indifferent, the cat just wanders off.

Later in the film, smarmy reporter Mickey Holm (Peter Jorde) is addressing himself to camera when the bell on the kitty’s collar alerts him to the tabby cat who is now at his feet.

Kitty Carnage Warning! Initially he smiles and greets the cat but then instructs it to “get lost” and when it doesn’t oblige he kicks out viciously at it, followed by the obligatory poor cat screech. After this, not surprisingly, the cat isn’t seen again.

Final Mewsings: Yet another film that would have benefited from more cat time.

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