Cat Sick Blues

Cat Sick Blues has a really Interesting and unique Storyline. It shows what a mental trauma can do to humans. Even It is considered as a Horror/Slasher it has also some Drama Elements and some really violent scenes. Overall Cat Sick Blues is a fine Independent Horror Film and in terms of something new and clever its definitely better than most mainstream Hollywood Horror Films. If you have a sense for Horror and Extreme Cinema I can recommend It.

Personally, I found this movie to be really good. It's not really a horror movie it's more a torture-porn. The acting was cheesy at some points I must admit but the amount of gore and torture was perfect. The only thing I would have to complain about is the acting(of course) but also the ending. When I watched this I thought it was Horror-Fiction not Horror-Fantasy so the ending was quite confusing. Overall, great gore, great torture scenes, bad acting and a very VERY confusing storyline and ending.

From what I read on the synopsis and some of the reviews here on IMDb, then I decided to sit down to watch "Cat Sick Blues", because it did seem like it might actually be odd enough to actually be good.

However, I was wrong. "Cat Sick Blues" fell far outside of what I consider to be a properly entertaining movie, and it was just way too bizarre and slow paced for my liking. And I can't claim to have found any interest in the storyline or the characters portrayed in the movie.

The movie is about a deranged man's urge to kill people and transform himself into a cat in an attempt to bring back his dead cat.

Weird! And it wasn't even enjoyable weird, not in any way. There just wasn't anything worthwhile in watching a nerd in a red shirt and a cat mask wearing an oversized strap-on dildo while killing people. It was just a sad excuse of a movie.

I made it through just about halfway before I just lost the will to go on. And it was either watch something else or start using my mobile phone, so I opted for watching something else, because not even the dialogue in "Cat Sick Blues" proved to be fun or entertaining.

As for the acting in the movie, well I am sure that people were doing adequate jobs, but it just didn't take a hold with me, and I wasn't impressed with what I saw.

With no intention of returning to finish "Cat Sick Blues", then I am rating it a mere two out of ten stars, given the fact that it did have some fair enough production value to it.

Thanks to social media, I've probably seen almost as many comical cat videos as I have horror films. With Cat Sick Blues, director Dave Jackson merges the funny feline phenomenon with the extreme horror genre to deliver a very gory and uniquely disturbing experience to surprise, disgust and delight fans of truly twisted cinema.

Jackson opens his film with two girls passing time getting high while watching performing pussycat Imelda, the star of their favourite online video channel. Their fun is interrupted, however, by a psycho killer in a rubber cat mask, who decapitates his victims and collects their blood in jars.

The action then moves to the apartment of Claire (Shian Denovan), owner of internet sensation Imelda, who answers her door to a fan; this proves to be a big mistake when the visitor accidentally kills Claire's kitty and then proceeds to rape the distraught woman.

Unable to get over the incident, Claire visits a group for grieving pet owners (as opposed to a rape crisis centre), where she befriends Ted (Matthew C. Vaughan), unaware that he is the cat-mask wearing killer (now with taloned gloves and a foot long prosthetic cat penis as part of his ensemble) who has been hacking off the heads of local women in the belief that their blood will somehow revive the corpse of his beloved moggie Patrick.

With a totally unique killer (in addition to his creepy cat costume, Ted also mewls like a cat to add to the unsettling effect), lots of gore (severed heads, a smashed face and slashed throats that spurt gallons of blood), some sly commentary about all that is wrong with social media, and a general sense of the macabre, Cat Sick Blues is one of those films that has to be seen to be believed and which is hard to forget.

This is quite possibly the worst film I've watched in all of 2021. Seriously, this movie is just terrible, but I watched it and I was curious as to how it would end, and when I got to the end I decided that it was even worse than I thought it would be, so let me break it down for you in the easiest way I know how.

Direction- Abysmal. Student film level camera angles, poor composition, terrible transitions and a complete lack of talent in how to frame a convincing scene. It's so bad, I just don't understand how this person is allowed to direct a wedding video, let alone a feature film.

Acting- The lowest point of the film, every single person in this movie was terrible. The lead female was a travesty of the greatest magnitude, but every single person in this movie was untalented, struggled to emote properly while others struggled to remember their lines, and the actual death scenes where rife with the most overacted and hilariously bad performances this side of Sharknado. I am embarrassed for these people. It was a disgrace.

Special effects- I just don't know how anyone could have thought that red paint and water/food coloring makes for convincing blood. It doesn't! No SFX used in this movie looked convincing, and the few that were almost passable were still poorly done. It was like a neighborhood haunted house levels of lame.

Cinematography- The absolute worst part of this steaming pile of garbage. The cinematographer has to be the worst one I have seen in a movie in quite a while. It's like this person had no idea what he/she was doing, and it yielded an ugly movie with bad angles, poor framing, and a sore eye of a film. It was literally and figuratively hideous to watch.

Ultimately, I'm just embarrassed for anyone who thought it was a good idea to attach their names to this. It was horrible, and not in a "so bad it's good" type of way. It was truly, utterly abhorrent in every possible way, and you are better off ignoring it exists. I am not exaggerating in any way. This movie is absolute trash.

People, I know you have friends and family that make these movies and you want to support them, I get that. But telling them that stuff like this is good is not doing a service to them or to the people who ultimately have to watch it. Stop lying to these people and let them know that their work just isn't good. Trust me, it's better for them, and it's really good for the audience as we are spared any more of this sophomoric bile.

Oh, I gave it 3 stars for the music. Some of it reminded me of Silent Hill's soundtrack.