Cat's Eye 1985 horror/comedy Review Stephen King

Paul  Branson

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00:00Hello, everyone. This is Paul Branson Reviews and so much more. Today, I'm reviewing this,

00:08Cat's Eye. Now, if you've never seen this movie, and you see that woman there, that's

00:14Drew Barrymore, being very, very young. And as you could remember her in Firestarter.

00:20But her very first movie was when she was five years old, called Alter State. Never

00:26seen it. I believe Alter State came out in 1980, but I've never seen the movie. Then

00:33she did commercials, and she got an attention. People were watching her, and the producers

00:39and all this said, you know what, she would be good in ET. So she was in ET. And ET was

00:46a huge hit in 1982. Just a huge hit. Now, you may not know this. If you have seen ET,

00:54and you like ET, on YouTube, they have kind of a part two of ET. It's about only five,

01:01eight minutes long. So just type in Reunion ET, or something like that, and you could

01:07check it out. It's a nice little remembrance of ET, and very heartwarming. So check that

01:15out too, if you haven't seen the kind of sequel to ET. But overall, this is a little different.

01:22So after she did ET, she did Firestarter, I believe. Or she might have did this first,

01:28or maybe this and Firestarter came out the same year. But when this came out, this is

01:33kind of like three stories that lead into a bigger story at the end. And she's at the

01:38ending story. But it kind of leads that way all the way through. So this is called Cat's

01:44Eye. Stephen King wrote this. And two of the stories in here are Stephen King's, but not

01:50the ending. Two of his stories were from books, but not the ending. Now there's some

01:56really good actors in here. The first story has James Wood, and some other actors that

02:01I'm just not going to mention, except Drew Barrymore and James Wood. Now the first story

02:07could have been a whole movie. Really could have been a whole movie. I would have loved

02:12to have seen the first story to be a full-mature film. The second story was a little, it was

02:18okay. It wasn't great, it wasn't perfect, but it was still fun. Now the third story

02:24was the Drew Barrymore story. Now in the film, you follow the cat. So the cat is in each

02:33episode of the short stories leading up to Drew Barrymore. That's all I'm going to say

02:37about the cat. That's why they say it's Cat's Eyes. And a lot of film times, you see it

02:43through the cat's eyes, that I actually found that was pretty cool. And the effects are

02:48good. They're decent. Not maybe for this time, but they're decent. Like if you watch this

02:54now, you'd be like, yeah, those are special effects for the 1980s. This film cost $7 million

02:59to make. And here is it here. Special features, commentary, a whole bunch of things. And this

03:07is an older casing for the DVD. You open it up. Nice pictures. The battle in the toy ribbon

03:17bedroom is a classic. One of the better Stephen King movies. It says that there at the back.

03:22Now I saw this in the theater, and it was a pact, and it was a lot of fun. People were

03:28like, some people were screaming. And I was young when I saw this, and I was like, oh,

03:34that's a classic. Some people were screaming. And I was young when I saw this in the theater.

03:37So this was a fun, fun movie. Now with Halloween coming out, Cat's Eye is not, like they have

03:44never really re-released it on DVD. So you actually have to find a copy. I found a copy

03:50for $5. So I was actually really lucky to find this, because I've been wanting it for

03:55some time. So I put it on, and I re-watched it, and I forgot a whole bunch of things.

04:00I forgot a whole bunch of things. Now the director who directed this also directed Kujo.

04:07So that's the same director who directed a Stephen King movie before, Kujo. He directed

04:11this. Now I really enjoyed this movie. I really liked it. I really liked the writing, the

04:19entertainment value, and it went by very quickly for what it was. Now Sissel and Ebert, Roger

04:25Ebert gave it a thumbs up. He liked the pacing. He thought it was perfect all the way through.

04:30And everything was just right on, and explained perfectly in each one. He did think the second

04:36one was a little weak, though. But overall, he liked the first one, and he liked the third

04:41one. Now Sissel, Sissel unfortunately gave it thumbs down, because he would have liked

04:51to have seen a full major movie of the first one, and a full major movie of the last one.

04:56He said, I want it more of the first short. I want it more of the last short. So he gave

05:04it thumbs down. So there is a little mix between them. But overall, the acting is good. You're

05:09going to be surprised on a lot of people that are in here, more than just James Wood. The

05:14only reason why I said James Wood and Drew Barrymore is because there's the pictures

05:17of them. But there's a lot more people that you're going to find in here, and it's an

05:21enjoyable picture. Bye for now everyone. I give this movie an 8 out of 10, because I

05:25thirdly enjoyed it. And I think it's a very well written script by Stephen King, and I

05:32like the fact that he threw in a couple of his shorts, and he kind of like threw it in

05:36a way of leading into something bigger. Bye for now everyone. Have an incredible day,

05:41and if you get a copy of this, if you can find a copy of this, or find the movie somewhere,

05:46check it out. And bye for now, and thank you again.

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