Hell's Kitty

What a cool little kitten...

...and a cool movie as well. Filmed on a very small budget with cast also working as crew, this is a gem - one that sadly many big budget films will never be able to match.

Funny dialog, obvious poorly done effects and a story which is absurd, but makes sense in it's entire construct.

I thought this film, performances - though not award winning, and the songs were very well created.

The cat - Angel is an amazing performer and should be well on her way to becoming a superstar feline in Hollywood.

I hope she claws her way to the top - and lands on her feet.

Good job guys.

I look forward to a second story...maybe one about a litter.

With a cast like that, just sit back and enjoy the show! Lots of fun, lots of good practical effects!!! Anything with Kelli Maroney and Chanel Ryan is worth the price of admission!!

"Dangerously adorable" and wonderfully over the top, 'Hell's kitty' makes no apologies for being so direct, straightforward, overt, and otherwise outrageous. It very much feels like a low-budget, amateur horror short expanded to feature length. Yet even as it exists in the same region as campy low-grade (and low-value) entertainment like 'Alice in Murderland' or 'Avalanche sharks,' it relishes playing in this space. Filmmaker Nicholas Tana is well aware of his limits, and doesn't care as he makes the best, most fun movie that he can within the bounds of his constraints. I readily think of a couple other movies that against all odds achieved the same feat of artistry in the face of artlessness, and it's refreshing and gratifying to see every time it works.

What is true of one aspect of 'Hell's kitty' is true for nearly every other: dialogue, characters, scene writing, and the overall narrative; camerawork, sequencing, transitions, general editing; effects, music, performances - everything herein is blunt, forthright, indelicate, graceless, and absurd. The movie embraces tropes and convention, clichés and stereotypes, and no small amount of crude humor. However, it's also solidly written, internally consistent, well made, & all involved obviously had a great time. I think it's clear that everything that is superficially gauche about the movie is a reflection of how Tana had only so much to work with, so he leaned wholly into the ridiculousness of the movie's concept and extended that to every facet of the production. The result, in my opinion, is a surprising and unlikely great success.

As if to emphasize the self-assured purposefulness behind it all, consider that the cast, who partake in such ludicrousness with abjectly exaggerated chewing of scenery, includes established, respected actors like Adrienne Barbeau, Doug Jones, and Michael Berryman. Consider the strong attentiveness to blood and gore, including makeup that fantastically realizes protagonist Nick's (Tana) dilemma and some rather gnarly nightmares. Consider the very telling and purely self-indulgent reference to 'Killer Klowns,' or character names like Dr. Laurie Strodes, Jaimie Screech Curtis, Detective Pluto (Berryman, of course), and more. 'Hell's kitty' knows exactly what it is, and is proud of it - as I think it very well should be.

The only specific criticism that I have to make is that this is overdone in terms of being too long. For as much fun as I was having, at one point I looked at the digital timer because I figured I had to be near the end - only to find that I wasn't yet even halfway done. I don't think this needed to be 98 minutes long, and to that point, the pace slackens and the feature loses some of its gusto in the last 20-30 minutes or so. The longer it runs, the more excess we're subjected to, sadly weakening the worthy bombast we otherwise get. If the writing were genuinely a bit tighter, this could have been altogether perfect.

Still, as far as I'm concerned the strength of the preceding material, and the ending, outweighs the weaknesses. Ultimately, even if it's a bit long in the tooth, this is a joyful, brazen farce. This is self-aware, deliberate buffoonery that so totally embraces its bluster and boundaries so as to come out the other side a highly enjoyable, engaging horror comedy. Given the nature of the production I don't begrudge anyone who engages honestly with the material and comes away unsatisfied, but for my part, I all but absolutely loved it. 'Hell's kitty' is a goofy, far-fetched romp - with one very cute cat - that may not be for everyone, but if you can get on board with the most outlandish of low-budget genre flicks, then you'll be in for a good time.

Granted, I wasn't familiar with "Hell's Kitty" in any format, TV series or whatever other formats that there might be with this devilish feline. But still, I stumbled upon this 2018 movie and decided to give it a go, because the poster/cover and synopsis seemed interesting.

This was a swing and a miss. Wow, are you serious? I don't even know what to think or where to begin. There was just so many things wrong here.

But wait, it wasn't all bad. The movie did have some moments, not many, but it did have them.

The storyline was just unappealing to me, although I managed to stick with it to the very end. But I can in all honesty say that I have no intention of sniffing out a copy of the series to give that a watch after having seen this ordeal of a movie.

The good parts of "Hell's Kitty" was the possessed cat and some of the scenes that involved the cat. But aside from that, then then storyline was just a scrambled confusing mess that made very little coherent sense. And the characters in the movie were one-dimensional cardboard cut outs - they had no personalities, traits or distinctive features that would make them stand out as memorable characters on the screen. And on that account, then you don't really invest anything in the characters and you do not do more than shrug when they are killed or driven away by the cat.

The best part of the movie was actually the impressive names that they god to make appearances in the movie. Sure, don't expect multi-million dollar paid acting performances. But if you are a fan of the underground movies and the straight-to-DVD movies, then you will definitely see some familiar faces here. Most noteworthy are Courtney Gains, Doug Jones, Bill Oberst Jr., John Franklin and of course Michael Berryman.

The movie is, and that is a wonderful thing, full of references to other horror movie, some sublime and so directly-in-your-face. I enjoyed that, and it was actually uplifting for the movie that they had those references.

For a 2018 horror comedy then "Hell's Kitty" left no permanent claw marks, and it is not a movie that I will be returning to a second time.

It was done on a low budget butbit was amazing. So funny in a dark and campy way. There are endless horror movie references and a horror icon from the 1970s. To be honest a big budget production could not possibly do half as good. And the music lol. Just epic.