Teenage Catgirls in Heat

The main story of this flick is quite simple....a cat figurine houses the spirit of a long-dead queen, ruler of the catgirls. As soon as she gives the command, all the little kittens around town sprout and grow into full-sized human females with insatiable sexual appetites. The girls sell themselves as cats well: they don't talk, just purr, meow, and lick their hands. Of course we have the hero of the story, who's trying to put an end to the sex-crazed madness, and his buddy, who is quite peculiar to say the least.

Linnea Quigley makes an appearance, if you blink you're gonna miss her.

I think they shot this move primarily in the daytime, because to simulate "night" they slapped a heavy blue filter on the camera. It was so heavy I couldn't see what was going on without squinting.

Oh, one more thing....when the catgirls have sex, they like to say "meow" over and over. Just another way for these ladies to sell themselves as "catgirls". Funny stuff.

In the end, not good enough to go in my Top 10, but not bad enough to ignore....I give it a C+ and honorable mention.

TEENAGE CATGIRLS IN HEAT (2+ outta 5 stars) Extremely silly movie... another ultra-low-budget Troma movie... which means a lot of cheap special effects, stupid jokes, gratuitous nudity and bad acting. In spite of all that... I kinda enjoyed this one. A magical cat idol transform ordinary house-cats into nubile young women in a bid to take over the world (or something like that). A cat hunter and a young drifter team up to try and stop them... but the drifter complicates matters when he falls in love with one of the "catgirls". Some of the actresses do a great job of playing cats in human bodies... speaking in a weird, mewling voice... playing with yarn... coughing up fur balls... Carrie Vanston as Cleo does an especially good job. Other than a few funny acting bits, though... there isn't much to see here. The story is stupid, the dialogue is poor and the directing is mediocre at best. Not enough sex for the softcore audience... and too much nudity for this to be a family movie (thought there were times it reminded of some of those lame Disney movies from the early '60s where people turned into dogs and things).

"Teenage Catgirls In Heat" is a very average Troma release. Like alot of their other films, it is a hit & miss film with many inconsistencies and just isn't able to hold the viewer's interest for the most part.

The plot is bizarre as usual, and had much potential. It is about an ancient statue of a cat taken out of its box in suburbia, making all the local cats commit mass suicide and then mutate into naked teenage girls who miow, lick, scratch, hiss and purr, with a mission to seduce and kill men. Meanwhile, a cat hunter and his sidekick stumble across them and want to find out what's going on.

The film has its moments, and some very funny scenes. In particular, the date between one of the cat hunters and one of the catgirls. But overall, the comedy is very inconsistent and gets tiresome. Worth checking out if you are a Troma fan, but otherwise there isn't much you'd get out of this.

Lets face it, what do you really expect to see when you watch a movie called Teenage Catgirls in Heat? You shouldn't have the highest expectations. It's just not going to be a rival to Gone With the Wind. Still, it didn't even meet my lowered expectations. I expected something with much more humor more sexual situations, and more gore or horror. Don't get me wrong, it did have a bit of all of these. The problem is, that it never had enough of any of them to really get your attention. I wouldn't call it one of the worst movies I've ever seen but I can't say it was enjoyable either. The acting was poor, as was the plot. The film quality was awful. It falls in that vast void of so so, below average movies that are watched and easily forgotten.

The first half of this movie is dull and plodding, with too little footage of the title creatures and too much footage of an annoying, overacting, unfunny, boozing "cat hunter" who becomes the hero's sidekick. The second half is a bit better, thanks mostly to the beautiful Carrie Vanston, who gives a wonderfully earnest and unembarrassed performance doing things that many other actresses would consider embarrassing (licking, hissing, scratching, rubbing herself against humans, drinking liquids, etc. like a cat). The other "catgirls" do a pretty good job too, and the occasional nudity helps, but overall this is yet another case of the Title Being Better Than The Movie - don't you just hate it when that happens? And I know it's not supposed to be taken seriously, but they still should have come up with a better excuse for the catgirls going so quickly from simply repeating sentences they heard on TV and a tape recorder to speaking perfect English. (*1/2)