by Linda Kay
Directed by: Brice Mack
This review contains a severe Kitty Carnage Warning!
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: Jennifer (Lisa Pelikan), the poor daughter of a pet shop owner (Jeff Corey), wins a scholarship to a prestigious school where several of the girls make her life miserable. But Jennifer knows of a secret power which just may come in handy when the bullying gets out of hand.
Cat Burglar (Scene Stealers): The pet shop includes several animals, including rabbits, snakes (which will eventually be pivotal to the plot), birds and tabby kittens. Jennifer echoes her father when she warns the kittens to get all A’s on their test at school.
Jennifer grows fond of one tabby kitten in particular who is a bit sickly and needs to be cared for specially.
Her father is an unreasonable puritan, so she talks to the kitten for companionship.
Jennifer is warned repeatedly by her strict father that she shouldn’t get attached to the kitten because it is the best of the litter and they need the money.
When she doesn’t listen, he takes the kitten away from her.
Jennifer must continue to hide the kitten in her room because the adorable furball is there when she comes home crying after a particularly horrifying incident at school.
One day Jennifer finds the tabby kitten is gone and her father explains that he sold him to a “friend” of hers from school. It’s possible the two other kittens still in the pen feel slighted.
Severe Kitty Carnage Warning! Jennifer reaches the limits of her tolerance when she opens her locker at school to find the kitten dead and hanging inside. Even worse, Sandra (Amy Johnston), the main girl who is tormenting Jennifer and who bought the kitten in the first place, claims that Jennifer killed her kitten. In the final showdown, the school gang (who somehow believe Sandra’s story) kidnap Jennifer and say they are going to show her what they do to a cat killer, circling her while meowing. But Jennifer still has some tricks up her sleeve!
Final Mewsings: Anyone who kills a kitten then blames it on the kitten’s owner deserves a special place in Hell.
Many thanks to Omega and Mark Murton for letting us know about the cats in this film.
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