After watching Booger I wanted some more cat-centric horror, so I chose Greydon Clark's Uninvited.
My god what a choice. What a terrible, wonderful choice.
I first became familiar with the b-movie career of Greydon Clark after a local screening this year of his 1983 comedy Joysticks. That film is awful, but also enjoyable, which I can safely say sums up Clark's career in a nutshell.
Uninvited is everything you'd want from a terrible movie. A plot that sounds like it was cobbled together in ten minutes ("Lab experiment gone wrong during spring break in Florida and a millionaire with a yacht who's trying to flee the country to avoid arrest. Also, a cat."); gratuitous nudity; special effects so immensely bad they become charming; Clu Gulager.
I have to say a bit more about those effects. Yes, there is a real cat in this. It does survive, and never seems to be in any overtly stressful situations, even though it ostensibly vomits up an evil mutant cat several times over the course of the film.
The vomiting cat and the vomited cat are so very clearly hand puppets, and that's what makes Uninvited so fun, and an example of something that is probably gone for good. In the age of CG and A.I., even if you wanted to create a movie with terrible effects like this, those effects would likely be created using computers, and not old carpeting, fake fur, and KY jelly. So I will continue to treasure films like Uninvited for the lost art they are.
I watched Uninvited on Prime. It is also available to stream with commercials on Tubi.
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