by Brian H. Also Known As: Souls for Sale; Evils of Chinatown Directed by: Albert Zugsmith Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Very loosely based on Thomas De Quincey’s 1821 novel Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Gilbert de Quincey (Vincent Price), a fictional descendant of Thomas […]
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Leave it to Beaver – “The Hypnotist”
Original Air Date: March 12, 1960 Directed by: David Butler Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Having seen a movie about a mad hypnotist, Beaver (Jerry Mathers) decides to try it out himself and Eddie Haskell (Ken Osmond) is all too willing to be his subject. Cat […]
Rock and Rule (1983)
Directed by: Clive Smith Synopsis: Set in a post-war future in which rats, dogs and cats have evolved to become more human, an insane rock legend named Mok (voiced by Don Francks) plans to summon a demon using the voice of a local singer named Angel (voiced by Susan Roman). Cartoon Cat: While in Nuke […]
Sledge Hammer! – “Witless”
by Ted Davis Original Air Date: October 3, 1986 Directed by: Jackie Cooper This review contains Cartoonish Kitty Carnage Warnings! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: When irritated mob boss Don Phillip Souza (Al Ruscio) places a million dollar bounty on gun-loving, criminal-hating police detective Sledge Hammer […]
The Cat That Hated People (1948)
Directed by: Tex Avery Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A frustrated black cat (voiced by Paul Frees doing a Jimmy Durante style impersonation) is fed up with people and decides to escape to the moon for some relief. Cartoon Cats: The cat is sitting in […]
The Bad Seed (1985)
by Mark Murton Directed by: Paul Wendkos Synopsis: Nine-year-old Rachel Penmark (Carrie Wells) seems to be the perfect child, that is until she is crossed or doesn’t get her own way in this made-for-TV remake of the classic play. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): In a pre-titles prologue an old woman, Mrs. Post (Eve Smith), puts […]
A Furry Little Christmas (2021)
Directed by: Dylan Vox Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: New York veterinarian Scarlet (Kristi Murdock) and son Milo (Pono Say) travel to Vermont to visit her father (Michael Swan) for Christmas where she falls in love with both the area and a handsome doctor named […]
The Man Called Flintstone (1966)
Directed by: Joseph Barbera, William Hanna Synopsis: This full-length animated feature finds Fred Flintstone (voiced by Alan Reed) having to step into the place of look-alike master spy Rock Slag which puts a crimp in his family vacation plans. Cartoon Cat: Pebbles and Bamm Bamm are playing in a Paris playground imagining the things they […]
Dr. Strange (1978)
by Ted Davis Directed by: Philip DeGuere Jr. This review contains an Implied Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, the evil and slinky sorceress Morgan LeFay (Jessica Walter) is returned to Earth by The Nameless One (David Hooks) to […]
Johnny English Reborn (2011)
Starring: Washington and Frisco Directed by: Oliver Parker This review contains an Implied Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: The world’s most unlikely master spy Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) returns to track down international assassins bent on causing world havoc. Kitty Cameo: In […]