Starring: Star

Directed by: Parker Finn

This review contains a Severe Kitty Carnage Warning!

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

Synopsis: Psychologist Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) is unnerved when a patient violently commits suicide in front of her, but things grow much worse when she starts experiencing the same terrifying visions as that patient.

Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): Rose owns an adorable tabby and white cat named Mustache (even though the kitty doesn’t actually have one). Mustache greets her when she comes home.

Later Rose and her boyfriend Trevor (Jessie T. Usher) come home again and Mustache is there to greet them.

Rose opens some cat food which she sets down for Mustache.

Severe Kitty Carnage Warning! Unfortunately Mustache disappears and doesn’t show up again until Rose attends her nephew’s birthday party. The boy seems stunned when he opens her gift which is supposed to be a model train. Instead the box contains the bloody body of Mustache. Rose cradles the dead cat (thankfully a fake or CGI) and begs the party goers to believe she had nothing to do with the cat’s demise or placement in the present.

The animal wrangler on the film was Diana Ventura. According to the American Humane Association website, the female cat actor’s name was Star, although it appears more than one cat was used during the filming (while eating the food, Mustache clearly has a notch in one ear, while the cat at the front door does not).

Final Mewsings: As soon as a cat disappears in a horror movie, we know what’s coming.

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