CommentsXp Best movie ever!

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Monkeywess This is an astonishing documentary that will wring your heart while it bends your mind

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

BA_Harrison In René Cardona Jr.'s book, if you hire a helicopter for your movie, you absolutely must get your money's worth, which is why Night of 1000 Cats is crammed full of shots of millionaire playboy Hugo (Hugo Stiglitz) flying over sunny Acapulco. Hugo uses the 'copter (clearly the most affordable one in Cardona's rental catalogue) as a means of attracting hot women, buzzing them as they try to relax, giving them the Stiglitz stare until they succumb to his charms. At no point do they call the police to report a creepy stalker in the sky, such is his way with women.Having successfully impressed a member of the fairer sex with his chopper (ooo-err!), Hugo whisks them back to his dilapidated ancestral monastery where he wines and dines them (speciality of the house: an unidentifiable chunk of meat, as prepared by Hugo's mute, bald butler Dorgo), before showing them his collection of severed heads in jars, at which point he illustrates why it's never a good idea to accept an invitation from a stranger in a helicopter. Choking his victim to death, Hugo takes their head as a trophy and feeds the remains to his clowder of cats (thanks, Google!), or into his incinerator.Hugo's macabre hobby hits a brick wall, however, when he tries to add a yummy mummy to his collection: stage one—luring her away from her family—goes without a hitch, the woman happy to cheat on her husband and abandon her child for a romp with the Stiglitz. However, before Hugo can claim his prize, he is interrupted by a passing doctor looking for help. As he tries to shoo the meddling medic away, his milf has a pang of conscience and rushes home to her daughter. The doctor pays for his interference with his head!Not one to give up, Hugo goes after the woman again, but underestimates his victim, who fights back after seeing his collection (which now includes Dorgo's head, killed for having the temerity to beat his master at chess!). Launching a spear at Hugo, the woman accidentally frees his flesh-eating moggies, who turn on their owner, mauling him to death.While some reviewers have criticised Night of 1000 Cats for it's excessive use of helicopter footage, I find such silliness quite endearing, adding to the film's overall trashy nature. The schlock level is taken to even greater heights by the ridiculous plot, Stiglitz's one-note performance, a shocking disregard for the well-being of its animals (one poor kitty is launched through the air like a discus while another is given a dunking in a pool), some hilarious dialogue (funniest moment: Hugo trying to convince one victim that the heads are made of wax, as though that's a perfectly normal alternative to keeping real heads in jars), and just a little titillation, including a woman with nipples you could hang your coat on (played by Christa Linder), and another (Tere Velázquez) who, thanks to Cardona's low camera angle, reveals herself to be going commando.N.B. This review is for the readily available 63 minute version of the film, which gets a rating of 6.5/10 from me (rounded up to 7 for IMDb). As far as the longer 93 minute version is concerned, I'm guessing that the extra half an hour is either more sex and gore (in which case it probably deserves a slightly higher rating), or another half an hour of Hugo in his whirlybird (in which case I would go slightly lower).

stairmaster 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

alvaro_dd what an awful movie! I was hoping to see an undiscovered classic and what I got was something like a tacky 70´s after shave commercial; crap acting, crap visuals...what a waste of a suitably crazy plot.On the other hand ,all the sex scenes seemed to be removed from the spanish version that I saw, altough it appears to be slightly longer than the others ( 93 minutes)...at least some gratuitous nudity would have helped me to stay awake.

fozzi331 This movie should be called Night of 1000 Hours of Helicopter Scenes. If you want to see some sick guy spend twenty minutes flying a helicopter, then somehow seducing a woman by buzzing around her house and stalking her, then maybe you would like this walking disease. Also, instead of 1000 cats, more like 70, and during the climatic end scenes, only 10 cats, with the same scene shown over again until you want to puke. Only good for making fun of. The one redeeming thing about this film was the video I saw it on was made out of yellow plastic, I had never seen that before. In conclusion, I would rather have toxoplasmosa than see this again. Thank you.