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Starring: Diane Lane, Billy Burke, Joseph Cross
Directed by: Gregory Hoblit
Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film!
Synopsis: Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) is an FBI agent investigating cyber crime when she happens upon a site which is streaming a serial killer’s deadly traps in real time.
Kitty Carnage Warning! The film opens with the bad guy setting up a trap in his basement for a poor little kitten named Lulu which he abducted from her owner’s yard. Lulu is seen in a carrier as the killer staples down a rat glue sheet to a piece of cardboard and pours some milk into a bowl on the other side.
The killer opens the carrier door and the kitten runs out onto the glue, getting stuck and crying out. Several shots of the kitten suffering are seen after this but it would appear a puppet was used for these shots. The FBI agent above Agent Marsh shows little concern for a website showing the killing of a cat, although many of the people commenting on the site itself are outraged.
Kitty Cameo: Agent Marsh owns a pretty Siamese cat who is seen in her room at her house. Petting the cat reminds her to look in on the kitten on the website again.
The Siamese cat is seen sitting on a pillow on her bed in another scene.
The Siamese cat is prominent when Marsh’s daughter Annie (Perla Haney-Jardine) notices that a live picture of her house is streaming on the website and she picks up the cat at the window to see herself doing the same on the computer screen.
When Agent Marsh has to go into hiding in a motel, she takes the cat with her and it is seen several times there.
Finally Agent Marsh returns to the hotel room to find someone has been there. She bundles up her cat in its carrier and drives away. The cat is only seen in the carrier when Marsh is kidnapped by the killer and then is not seen again.
Final Mewsings: The FBI better change its policy about cat killers!
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