An anthology of three Stephen King short stories connected by a stray cat who wanders through each tale . Through the eye of the cat, a twisted tail of macabre suspense from the author of Carrie , The Shining and The dead Zone , the great Stephen King .
The film consists of three stories titled : ¨Quitters Inc." ¨The Ledge¨ and "The General" , being linked together by a cat as he wanders from city to city, seeking out a little girl : Drew Barrymore , in order to save her from a supernatural danger. As a result of it's wanderings, the cat plays a minor role in the first two stories and a significant part in the third. This is an acceptable trio of moggy-linked King tales , two of them adapted from his own short stories and the final section a celluloid 'original' . In the first James Woods chooses the wrong method to giving up smoking when he succumbs to the positively draconian services from a strange company run by Alan King, while suffering bizarre ciggie-filled hallucinations . In the second , cuckolded husband Kenneth McMillan forces his wife's toyboy Robert Hays into a potentially fatal climb around the outside walls of his penthouse . In third , little girl Drew Barrymore is given a bad time by a demon -fantastically created by Carlo Rambaldi (ET)- in the woodwork , while her pet cat takes the blame . In each instance , the limp pay-off undercuts enjoyable acting such as : a manic James Woods , an excessive Alan king , and the likable Drew especially , and the ordinary caveats about cumulatively unsatisfyng portmantau pictures certainly apply , Including 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. This Cat's Eye(1985) displays an adequate cinematography by classic cameraman Jack Cardiff , as well as a suspenseful and intriguing musical score by Alan Silvestri , being well directed by Lewis Teague.
Based on a Stephen King's story , the horror writer extraordinaire , he's a prolific writer , here dealing with a short tale dealing with a mysterious comet passes close within the Earth, machines all over the World come alive and go on homicidal rampages . King has a library load of books to his credit and a fan base of fanatic's eager to purchase any piece that pours from his platinum pen . Quite obviously many of his books have inspired movie adaptations, however surprisingly the transformation from page to cinema has not always been a successful one. Scanning a list of films based on King's work which features about 120 writing credits , there is a mixture of masterpieces and others average , flops or stinkers . On the one hand we have horror classics like Carrie, The Shinning, Misery and The Mist . And on the other hand , B-movies , blowouts or failures films such as Thinner, Maximum Overdrive, The Tommyknockers, Dreamcatcher , Running Man , Dolan's Cadillac and The Langoliers. And Hollywood keeps buying up the rights to more of Stephen King's stories other directors could take.
The film consists of three stories titled : ¨Quitters Inc." ¨The Ledge¨ and "The General" , being linked together by a cat as he wanders from city to city, seeking out a little girl : Drew Barrymore , in order to save her from a supernatural danger. As a result of it's wanderings, the cat plays a minor role in the first two stories and a significant part in the third. This is an acceptable trio of moggy-linked King tales , two of them adapted from his own short stories and the final section a celluloid 'original' . In the first James Woods chooses the wrong method to giving up smoking when he succumbs to the positively draconian services from a strange company run by Alan King, while suffering bizarre ciggie-filled hallucinations . In the second , cuckolded husband Kenneth McMillan forces his wife's toyboy Robert Hays into a potentially fatal climb around the outside walls of his penthouse . In third , little girl Drew Barrymore is given a bad time by a demon -fantastically created by Carlo Rambaldi (ET)- in the woodwork , while her pet cat takes the blame . In each instance , the limp pay-off undercuts enjoyable acting such as : a manic James Woods , an excessive Alan king , and the likable Drew especially , and the ordinary caveats about cumulatively unsatisfyng portmantau pictures certainly apply , Including 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. This Cat's Eye(1985) displays an adequate cinematography by classic cameraman Jack Cardiff , as well as a suspenseful and intriguing musical score by Alan Silvestri , being well directed by Lewis Teague.
Based on a Stephen King's story , the horror writer extraordinaire , he's a prolific writer , here dealing with a short tale dealing with a mysterious comet passes close within the Earth, machines all over the World come alive and go on homicidal rampages . King has a library load of books to his credit and a fan base of fanatic's eager to purchase any piece that pours from his platinum pen . Quite obviously many of his books have inspired movie adaptations, however surprisingly the transformation from page to cinema has not always been a successful one. Scanning a list of films based on King's work which features about 120 writing credits , there is a mixture of masterpieces and others average , flops or stinkers . On the one hand we have horror classics like Carrie, The Shinning, Misery and The Mist . And on the other hand , B-movies , blowouts or failures films such as Thinner, Maximum Overdrive, The Tommyknockers, Dreamcatcher , Running Man , Dolan's Cadillac and The Langoliers. And Hollywood keeps buying up the rights to more of Stephen King's stories other directors could take.