Touches You

People are voting emotionally.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

There are some scenes where real cats are used cruelly -- He dunked a real cat under water in a swimming pool -held it down, throwing a real cat... if they had of used fake cats then I would not have minded - we get the idea that the guy is cat crazy and cruel at the same time without hurting real cats. I do NOT believe in hurting real animals over a freaking film.Yea I would have liked this one a little better without the cruelty... and so many helicopter scenes (that's how he does it, flies around in his chopper to find women to woo, kill and feed his cats plus himself).Once with this film is enough for me... I barely made it to the ending with him being cruel to real cats.1/10

A playboy aristocrat tries to romance several women around the town, yet when his advances are spurned, brings them back to his castle to feed to his basement filled with flesh-eating cats.Superb Mexican exploitation effort, filled with lots of nudity, some what-should-be arrogant speeches from the main guy about getting away with it all and just the general nature of the storyline, about the tactics he uses and the toys he plays with in order to do everything he does around the city, so despite the lack of real action since it's pretty slow-going, it's still a good bit of fun. The castle is again a grand Gothic masterpiece, filled with the cramped rooms, candle-lit walkways and brick architecture that's always featured in these films, and with the cats coming into play more in the second half, it adds an extra bit of spice into the proceedings what with them getting loose and chasing after the victims causing a suspenseful chase to get out. Needed a bit more action during the second half when he's trying to lure the women back, but it's not all that bad at all.Rated R: Full Nudity, Graphic Violence, Language and violence-against-animals

The moment I saw "Night of 1000 Cats" in the bargain bin of my local Wal-mart, I was perplexed. Why was such a promising looking movie being sold in so degrading a fashion? Out of curiosity, I bought it on impulse, and let me tell you, "Cats" is worth every penny of its price, and more so.The plot follows a young playboy billionaire named Hugo, who flies around what may or may not be a Mexican city in his helicopter seducing beautiful women and the occasional little girl. Hugo is so charming, he can seduce women without even having a conversation with them, all he needs is his helicopter and his winning smile. But there's a catch, for Hugo is not truly a Casanova, he is more of a CATSanova, for he is the owner of 1000 bloodthirsty cats, and once he is satisfied with his women, he feeds them to these voracious felines.And now for my review. "Night of 1000 Cats" is truly a film masterpiece, and I am shocked at the low ratings this film has garnered on this otherwise esteemed site. Those who gave this a low rating should go back to watching the sellout, brain-dead pap that Hollywood normally pumps out. I suppose, however, that most people can not appreciate this movie as the pure work of art that it is. It is the Mona Lisa of film, and it distresses me that people's tastes have deteriorated so much.Hugo, or as I like to call him, the Catsanova (the reason I rated this as a 9 instead of a 10 was because I feel Rene Cardona Jr. really missed a great opportunity to use this brilliant play on words in the movie) is one of the most interesting characters in cinematic history. We never really know much about the character. He apparently has no job, and like all other characters in this movie, he rarely speaks (a brilliant minimalistic decision on the part of the director). We are led to assume his Catsanovic ways all began after his mute Mongolian butler killed one of his girlfriends. Tragically, he took the wrong path after this, and decided to buy 1000 cats so that he could feed women to them. This was truly a tragic, yet natural decision that I think many other men in his position would take, myself included admittedly. We can see the Catsanova's anger and internal anguish occasionally when he randomly tosses a nearby cat over a 12 foot tall cage wall and later when he drowns a cat in his swimming pool. A foolish viewer would claim these scenes were pointless and didn't make sense, but they would be dead wrong, much like the Catsanova's women friends.The direction in this movie is impeccable. You can really understand the movie's symbolism when, during a sex scene, the camera zooms in quickly, dramatically, and repeatedly into the faces of stuffed rabbits, bears, owls, and mooses the Catsanova keeps in his bedroom. This likely symbolizes the Catsanova's descent into the natural animal instinct to feed his sexual partners to cats. Another cool trick the director pulls is adjusting the focus until everything gets blurry. You can tell that Rene Cardona Jr. was very inventive, as no other director is talented enough to bring a shot from clearness into unfocused mystery. Another compliment I have to give Cardona is his reuse of footage. In the ten to twenty minute helicopter seduction sequence for example, Cardona demonstrates incredible efficiency by reusing the same few shots over and over. Overall, "Night of 1000 Cats" is a must see movie, and will change your life. The movie has a very important moral: "If you become rich, avoid the temptation to feed women to flesh- eating cats."9 out of 10

I picked up a copy of this movie not really knowing what I was getting into. Hey, it was only $2. It's *baaad*, but I laughed all the way through it.I want that guy's house. It's an old monastery-and it's gorgeous, but tastelessly decorated. As a good Goth, it's also right up my abbey. Pun intended. The main character, in addition to having a totally expressionless face, is a ringer for those old composite sketches they did of the UnaBomber before they identified him as Ted Kazynski. Beard, moustache, and big square aviator shades that almost never leave his face.I thought the end of the movie was poetic justice. He was mean to this one white cat throughout the movie. I'm a cat lover, I hate to see cruelty to cats even if the cat is a cheap puppet that looks like a bathmat. Paybacks are a bitch, I guess.(Possible spoiler?) There is this one scene about a third of the way through the movie where the white cat jumps on top of the table during a meal. It looks way too much like the Vorpal Bunny in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. If this film hadn't been made 2 years before Grail, I would have expected someone to leap up with "JAYSUS CHRIST!" and whip out the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch.And what was up with the Quasimodo dude? Thorko, I believe they called him. (Spoiler!!) I love when he beats the main character in a game of chess, Thorko bites it. Speaking of, I *want* that chess set they were playing with. I collect them, it was lovely.I noticed that when the cats were fed, they only used one sequence of the lead man grabbing shredded meat and tossing it to the cats. Look carefully, they reuse the same film about a dozen times.And finally at the end when the cats' pen was opened and all of them ran free, I was laughing until I cried. Something about that sequence of all the cats running around reminded me of the ReMax ad from hell.It's an absolutely abysmal movie. The characters are not believable, and in more than a few places the dubbing was really bad. But still, it's a treasured item in my Movies To Get Drunk To collection. If it were any longer than 63 minutes I doubt I'd find it as amusing.