ABCs at the Movies: The Doubles Round!

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In this H.P. Lovecraft tale, Herbert West is a Swiss scientist who has discovered a fluid which brings dead tissue back to life. After the suspicious death of his professor in Switzerland, West moves to Miskatonic University to continue his research. He involves fellow student Dan Cain and his fiancée Megan Halsey in his research by experimenting on their dead cat. Dan, fascinated by West's research, agrees to smuggle him into the hospital morgue with predictable results.


(Sorry about all the dead cats in my posts, lol!)

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Plot: A newspaperman jumps in the river to drown himself. He reappears as a cockroach, who finds he can still type by jumping up and down on the keys of a typewriter. He is in love with Mehitabel, the office cat. He writes poetry to her, and tries to keep her on the straight and narrow. Big Bill the Alley tom cat is Mehit's heart-throb, and Archy's nemesis. She has kittens, and archy declares war in a George Herriman sequence.

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Storyline:  A young Scottish girl's cat, Thomasina, apparently dies at the hands of her widowed veterinarian father. The strained relationship between the girl and her father is eventually repaired with the return of Thomasina and the aid of a beautiful and mysterious "witch" who seems to have powers to revive and heal animals.

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IMDb:  Sylvester Cat must catch mice or lose his happy home. When he can't find a mouse inside, he searches out of doors and comes upon one meek, little mouse who agrees under duress to be Sylvester's one rodent to catch and rough up again and again in front of his masters. But it isn't long before the mouse realizes Sylvester needs him alive and decides to stop being Sylvester's stooge.

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When a young woman of beauty and talent joins a provincial vaudeville troupe, they're suddenly playing to packed houses, and their aging comic Checco Dalmonte gets big ideas. He falls in love with the ingenue, Liliana, and ignores his companion of several years, Melina Amour. (She wants to marry Checco and she's saving to open a deli.) Also, believing he can be an impresario, he hires other actors and begins rehearsal for a revue that will star Liliana and himself. Liliana admires Checco, but she's being squired around town by Adelmo Conti, the assistant to the region's biggest impresario. Can Checco's new troupe hold onto Liliana, and how will Melina fare?

Keyword: CAT

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Plot summary:  Chloe, a young woman, is going on holiday. She entrusts her beloved cat to Madame Renée's care. But one day Madame Renée (an old lady of the neighborhood) cannot find the cat. Chloe starts searching the neighborhood....

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Plot summary: A young woman with an active imagination contacts the FBI when her cat DC (Darn Cat) comes home wearing a wristwatch. She's convinced its the tip-off to crack a bank robbery and kidnapping case that has the authorities baffled. An allergic agent is assigned to "tail" the cat to find the hostage, and laugh (and romance) follows.

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English title: Black Cat From The Grove

IMDb Comment by Horror-Fan:
Another excellent classic from Kaneto Shindo who made The Island and Onibaba. Similar to Onibaba, this film is about two women who one day are ambushed by samurai who rape them and burn their house down. Then the women return to life as Bakeneko, cat vampires who lure samurai into a creepy bamboo forest and then drink their blood.

This keeps going on until a young man who was victorious in war is hired to hunt down the vampires but he realizes to his horror that these creatures are the vengeful souls of his mother and wife who died while he was off at the war. He is then torn between his lord, who orders him to kill the ghosts or else he will be killed, and his mother and wife whom he loves and couldn't possibly kill.

This film is very creepy and full of grotesque images that stay with you forever. The most horrifying are the charred bodies of the two women being licked by two stray cats and the final image of the poor young man who finally is driven to madness. The film is acted much like a Kabuki play and the story is a very powerful one. The film is both a ghost story and a vampire film and very imaginatively blends the two genres

I have to see this film!

EDIT:  I just found out that the film played here as part of the Fantasia Film Fest in July!

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwJ8lY8u_yY[/youtube]

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Storyline:  Three horror-thriller tales revolve around a mysterious stray cat which is attempting to find a little girl in trouble. In "Quitters, Inc." the cat is picked up by a shady New York "doctor" who uses experimental techniques to get people to quit smoking. His latest client is a man named Morrison, who learns he'll suffer some terrible consequences if he tries to cheat. In "The Ledge" the cat is picked up by Cressner, a shady Atlantic City millionaire who forces tennis pro Norris (his wife's lover) to walk a narrow ledge around his high-rise penthouse apartment. In "The General" the cat arrives in Wilmington, North Carolina, where it is found by Amanda, the young girl it has been sent to protect. What she needs protection from is a tiny, evil troll who lives behind the skirting board in her bedroom.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBdshG0lWac&feature=related[/youtube]
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The Color in the Title of Movie Round



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