Strays (1991)

This movie is such a fake. It doesn't represent the true majesty and betterment that cats have over vicious dogs. Cats are just better, and this movie would lead you to believe (falsely) that cats have the potential to harm humans, when nothing can be further than the truth. There's a reason the police use dogs when to commit acts of heinous violence against fellow humans, because dogs are more than happy to carry out those violent orders. So in further review This movie is fake So fake. I mean like on a list of fake things, this movie is probably at the totem pole tippy top of movies being fake. I've seen movies on SCI-FI channel that contain more credible accounts of happenings than this movie. Lastly, This movie portrays the most heinous acts of violence I can imagine, I would not recommend this movie to anyone. It is such a horrible rendition of a "feral cat."

The basic, unavoidable, fundamental problem with this TV scare flick is that cats...are...not...scary. I can understand alligators, rabid dogs, even that movie about killer slugs ("Slugs") sort of worked because the animals are either potentially dangerous or at least disgustingly vile. But unless you are of the .001 percent of the population with a cat phobia "Strays" will just strike you as ridiculous (the sight of Timothy Busfield running from a bad stuffed kitty with claws doesn't lessen the laugh ratio of this "horror" movie). The real cats in the movie don't look any different from your average house cat and the preponderance of strays in the movie's country house is more a commercial for the necessity of spay/neuter programs than striking terror in the audience's collective hearts.

Can you see the headline: 'Stray Cats Terrorize Household, Kill Three?' Sounds ludicrous, doesn't it? This movie actually makes a pretty good argument of how it's possible. Stray cats who've been neglected by humans don't fear them and don't like them. They've become feral so when you muscle in on their domain, they get aggressively defensive. Well, maybe not all cats do that. Just the "dominant male cat" and his posse in this movie.However, the only cat that actually looks scary in this movie is the dominant male - probably a robo-puppet - who appears to be always wet for some reason but still fears water. The others cats are scattered around the house to look like troops but they simply seem like confused cats mewing in protest. It's not hard to see how this movie would fail to be scary. If someone clutching a mess of fur to their chest while writhing about in supposed agony isn't silly enough, what about seeing someone shoot a cat with a water-gun? And do you remember all those thrillers in which they use the tried-and-true but totally manipulative and pointless tactic of having a cat suddenly leap from the dark and make everyone jump? Well this movie finally has a legit reason to use that trick but it doesn't. Sheesh.

If I could have voted zero on this movie I would. I consider this movie cruelty to cats and cat lovers alike. I couldn't believe that made a thriller about the most cutest of the furry friends domestic animal alive. I guess since they can make dogs vicious they would have to do the same for cats