As I do with any movie that prominently features an animal, I had to look up whether the cat in the movie Booger dies or not. Spoiler: it does not. (But a rat does!)
In fact the cat gets off much better than the lead character Anna (Grace Glowicki, excellent). She's dealing with the trauma of losing her best friend Izzy. When their cat Booger bites her in a fit of cat rage, and then runs away, she attempts to deal with both the aftermath of her friends' death, and a search for the cat. All this while also beginning to undergo some...changes.
Booger is a very short film, not even 90 minutes long, so it doesn't take long to jump right into its tale of body horror, and indeed there are some moments that are really gross. (Cats puking up hair balls is gross enough; it's something else entirely to see a human do it.) But it also pairs that grossness with a good sense of humor; the short glimpses into Anna and Izzy's friendship via little video clips from their social media are a delight.
Being that one of my favorite horror movies is Cat People (the 1982 one; yes I'm serious) this movie was of course very much my jam. It doesn't quite come near to that film's greatness (shut up) but I think I'm just always going to be partial to horror movies centered on cats and catness.
Booger is available to stream, with commercials, on Tubi, Plex, and Roku. I watched it commercial free on Prime.
No comments:
Post a Comment