sjcobert Review of The Uncanny

The Uncanny (1977)

Lucy's guaranteed weight loss plan: Step in the pentagram, please...

[12 November 2000]

This movie tells three stories about how cats are bent on taking over the earth. Peter Cushing plays an author who is trying to expose cats as evil creatures. An odd error in this movie is that each of the humans who suffers at the hands -- uh, paws -- of cats is pretty darn nasty anyway, and the cats seem to be more of agents of revenge than just plain evil. Most interesting story was the second one, in which a teenaged girl named Angela picks on her cousin Lucy, rubbing in how short she is and sending her cat, Wellington, to the pound. Turns out Lucy is a witch and Wellington is her familiar, and by the time they are done with Angela she has a serious height problem of her own...