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Director: Lewis Teague
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From Time Out Film Guide
A trio of moggy-linked Stephen King tales, two of them adapted from his own short stories, the final section a celluloid 'original'. James Woods chooses the wrong method of giving up smoking, when he succumbs to the positively draconian services of 'Quitters, Inc' and suffers bizarre ciggie-filled hallucinations; cuckolded husband McMillan forces his wife's toyboy Hays into a potentially fatal climb around the outside walls of his penthouse; young Barrymore is given a bad time by a demon in the woodwork, while her pet cat takes the blame. In each instance, the limp pay-off undercuts strong performances (manic Woods and sympathetic Drew especially), and the usual caveats about cumulatively unsatisfying portmanteau pictures certainly apply. King's moments of winking self-reference (a ringer for the car in Christine, a character reading Pet Sematary) hardly seem warranted in the circumstances.Author: TJ
User reviews of this film
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- jilly Griffiths said...
- Posted on Nov 27 2011 19:29 APPEARS DATED., BUT I FOUND IT QUITE ENTERTAINING, THE CAT WAS QUITE AMUSING, AND MADE THE FILM GEL,.
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- Eric said...
- Posted on Oct 04 2010 03:35 Worst movie I've ever seen in my life.
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- glen said...
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Posted on Jan 16 2009 03:34
entertaining anthology film in the tradition of the Amicus horror movies of the sixties and seventies.
the stories are inter-linked by a plot thread about astray cat that sets out on a mission to save a young girl from a supernatural gnome beast that is stealing her breath. - Report as inappropriate
Cast & crew
Director: Lewis Teague
Producer: Martha Schumacher
Cast: Drew Barrymore, James Woods, Alan King, Kenneth McMillan, Robert Hays, Candy Clark, James Naughton, James Rebhorn full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 94 mins
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