Synopsis
They have nine lives. We have only one.
A young married couple and their daughter are terrorized by a pride of ferocious feral felines.
1991 Directed by John McPherson
A young married couple and their daughter are terrorized by a pride of ferocious feral felines.
Strays - Blutige Krallen
THEY SAY CATS HAVE NINE LIVES...WILL ONE OF THEM BE YOURS??
Glorious made for TV cheese that plays out like Aracnophobia but with cats and way less acting talent. I mean how are you going to make the cutest species on the planet look menacing? You can try but you are definitely gonna lose because CATS RULE AND EVERY OTHER ANIMAL DROOLS!
This movie is super entertaining because basically it's just adorable cats jumping into people and then said people doing back flips off balconies or smashing into shelves and then BLAM! they are dead. Even the "Main baddy cat" looks ultra cute. They threw some shit in its fur and ruffled it up to look more tough. Sorry still cute and those lame 90s humans with their pleated pants had it coming!
CATS 4 LYFEEEEEEEEEEEEE 🐱🐈🐅🐆🐱🐈🐅🐆🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
"I know how they behave, that's why I have a dog." - Main villain
Strays is a made-for-television tale about horrible, ginger, city dwelling humans who have clearly abducted a rather Italian/Hispanic/Mediterranean-looking, jet-black-haired child, trying to pass her off as their own, they decide to seek refuge in a house in the woods, completely unfazed that the house was already in use by a loving family of cats. The cats become strays once the gingers start pouring water on the poor kitties and shoving pillows into their hidey holes. The cats band together and try to rid their home of these awful dog loving people.
I think they were hoping for a sequel because just when you think the people…
A perfectly adequate TV horror movie with few surprises, if any. It doesn’t bog itself down in unnecessary story, so it’s 82-minute runtime is efficient and kept me actively engaged despite an overall lack of memorability. I dunno, not every movie has to be a masterpiece. Sometimes, entertaining for 90 minutes or so is all a movie needs to do, and Strays is that to a tee.
Added to:
• 1991 Horror — D Edward Ranks (23)
• Scream Factory — D Edward Ranks (106)
Obviously a pillow is much better to stop killer stray cats than a door or a grate. Though this house is pretty shoddily made so maybe the pillows are more durable in comparison.
I'm here to tell y'all that this movie might have the dumbest characters that I've ever seen. It's frustrating until I finally wrapped my brain around it and started laughing at the silliness....for the last 15 minutes. Cats can be creepy. Cats can be excellent purr-veyors of jump scares. But cats aren't exactly a formidable opponent. You can just kick them if they attack you (it would break my heart to do it....until one of those little bastards clawed my leg, then it would be kitty clobberin'…
A middle-aged couple, played by Timothy Busfield (Field of Dreams) and Kathleen Quinlan (Apollo 13), leaves the city with their young daughter to move into their dream home, an isolated house in the countryside, with the awareness that their new location will come with its own challenges and financial hurdles. Unfortunately for them, the house is occupied by a horde of bloodthirsty feral cats who waste no time in trying to eliminate the new owners. During one terrifying evening, our bewildered protagonists must fight for their lives to keep from becoming a fancy feast for these feline adversaries.
The 1991 made-for-television horror movie, Strays, which premiered on the USA Network, was directed by John McPherson, who had previously helmed several…
So I was hella sick this past week. Didn’t do much but sleep. Was finally feeling well enough to to do things so last night did what any normal person would do. I went over to a friends house, got incredibly high, and accidentally found the greatest movie I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. I kid but also as much as it was absolutely ridiculous, I couldn’t help but have a good time. And yeah that could just be the weed talking. Either way I don’t care I loved it.
anti-cat propaganda designed 2 stoke the fires of hatred that reside within canine luvrs rotten hearts. disgusting, disturbing! cats would never! i am however happy to see so many gorgeous + talented felimes working in the movies! we just love to see women succeeding! ❤️
Despite being apparently made as a TV-film in 1991, this homeowners-vs-feral-cats tale feels appropriately grindhouse-ish for an October viewing-that is, in the sense that it features long stretches of boredom and subpar acting, punctuated with some ridiculously entertaining individual scenes. Claudia Christian, pro that she is, gets the brass ring with a death scene that's more committed than anything else in the movie (and wraps up an unneeded subplot in a weird way), but there's also a scene with a vet that kind of has to be seen to be believed, and a confrontation with the, errr, Alpha cat where Mr Biggles seems to be channeling Nick Nolte's performance in Ang Lee's Hulk. Sadly he doesn't come back as a giant electric jellyfish to knock the ginger cat-hating dork who stars in this around the room.
Sorta like Arachnophobia, but with cats instead of spiders. And it's a tv movie. And it has a "lifetime original movie" vibe, but the dialogue is sharper than a lot of tv movies I've seen.
The main mean cat is the same type of one used in Pet Sematary. I guess that wide biscuit shaped head is scary to people. I really liked the scene with the veterinarian. Now I feel like I should go back and rewatch some of the William Boyett movies I've seen.
Nothing spectacular, but this was a decent watch.
Remember this being on tv a good bit when I was a kid, but don’t think I ever bothered with it because it didn’t seem like a legitimate monster movie. And it isn’t. The only reason to see this really is for the novelty of using real cute cuddly kitties as the killers. Sure the alpha feline is pretty mean looking, growling and hissing at the humans, but the rest of the cats seem harmless and like they just want some food or attention. Do the cats even kill anybody in this movie? They cause a woman to fall to her death and occasionally leap onto a character’s back as they flail around trying to throw a furry puppet off their body. It’s all pretty dull and only slightly amusing in a so-bad-it’s-good fashion.
Rounding out my Killer Cats movie knowledge with a deep cut here. I love the slow, TV movie vibe this has, and the clumsy Jaws 2 reference at the climax.
In the grand tradition of Night of the Lepus, Frogs, and Slugs comes a horror movie featuring some of the cutest, most adorable, and very unscary whittle baby kitty kats! 'Strays' may as well be spelled with a backwards 'R' and written in crayon.
The leader of this furry flock is differentiated by an unkempt coat and a voice worthy of a gremlin. I swear it actually said yum.
On the surface there isn't that much to make this movie stand out but it's so funny watching these lil fur babies 'kill' people by - gasp! - jumping on them.
It's a lot of fun seeing everyone treat Timothy Busfield like a hysterical wuss. The cats peed on dude's clothes and left a dead rat like the mob leaving a horse's head. It's purrfect.
I'm #teamfeline.
There is a scene where a lady uses a water bottle to fend off about 30 stray cats that have invaded her house.
This flick could have been so much more.
Can't we just combine this flick with the movie C.H.U.D.?
Yes, I am talking CHUD CAT!
A perfectly adequate TV horror movie with few surprises, if any. It doesn’t bog itself down in unnecessary story, so it’s 82-minute runtime is efficient and kept me actively engaged despite an overall lack of memorability. I dunno, not every movie has to be a masterpiece. Sometimes, entertaining for 90 minutes or so is all a movie needs to do, and Strays is that to a tee.
Added to:
• 1991 Horror — D Edward Ranks (23)
• Scream Factory — D Edward Ranks (106)
That rubber duckie shot is poetic Cinéma.
The shots from the cat's pov!
And the guy! With the map! Getting lost in the middle of a cat attack (or whatever that was)? I'm dead.
Also, I've never seen a more useless child in my live ever.
An absolutely hilarious bad straight to TV movies from the nineties. A complete blast to watch.
If Pet Semetery took out the Cemetery and just focused on the cat but then added in like 20 more cats.
🐈 Purrrrfect! 🐈
This house don't belong to you; this house belongs to the cats and you are an intruder. Meow!!
❤🐈❤🐈❤🐈❤🐈❤🐈❤🐈❤🐈❤🐈❤🐈❤
Yeah, but OF UNKNOWN ORIGIN is just so much better. Why even bother with Brand X?
Definitely a good time. Doesn’t have the kills or iconic one-liners/jokes to warrant multiple watches though.
I always get Mary Steenburgen and Kathleen Quinlan mixed up it's a waking nightmare
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