BA_Harrison In René Cardona Jr.'s book, if you hire a helicopter for your movie, you absolutely must get your money's worth, which is why Night of 1000 Cats is crammed full of shots of millionaire playboy Hugo (Hugo Stiglitz) flying over sunny Acapulco. Hugo uses the 'copter (clearly the most affordable one in Cardona's rental catalogue) as a means of attracting hot women, buzzing them as they try to relax, giving them the Stiglitz stare until they succumb to his charms. At no point do they call the police to report a creepy stalker in the sky, such is his way with women.Having successfully impressed a member of the fairer sex with his chopper (ooo-err!), Hugo whisks them back to his dilapidated ancestral monastery where he wines and dines them (speciality of the house: an unidentifiable chunk of meat, as prepared by Hugo's mute, bald butler Dorgo), before showing them his collection of severed heads in jars, at which point he illustrates why it's never a good idea to accept an invitation from a stranger in a helicopter. Choking his victim to death, Hugo takes their head as a trophy and feeds the remains to his clowder of cats (thanks, Google!), or into his incinerator.Hugo's macabre hobby hits a brick wall, however, when he tries to add a yummy mummy to his collection: stage one—luring her away from her family—goes without a hitch, the woman happy to cheat on her husband and abandon her child for a romp with the Stiglitz. However, before Hugo can claim his prize, he is interrupted by a passing doctor looking for help. As he tries to shoo the meddling medic away, his milf has a pang of conscience and rushes home to her daughter. The doctor pays for his interference with his head!Not one to give up, Hugo goes after the woman again, but underestimates his victim, who fights back after seeing his collection (which now includes Dorgo's head, killed for having the temerity to beat his master at chess!). Launching a spear at Hugo, the woman accidentally frees his flesh-eating moggies, who turn on their owner, mauling him to death.While some reviewers have criticised Night of 1000 Cats for it's excessive use of helicopter footage, I find such silliness quite endearing, adding to the film's overall trashy nature. The schlock level is taken to even greater heights by the ridiculous plot, Stiglitz's one-note performance, a shocking disregard for the well-being of its animals (one poor kitty is launched through the air like a discus while another is given a dunking in a pool), some hilarious dialogue (funniest moment: Hugo trying to convince one victim that the heads are made of wax, as though that's a perfectly normal alternative to keeping real heads in jars), and just a little titillation, including a woman with nipples you could hang your coat on (played by Christa Linder), and another (Tere Velázquez) who, thanks to Cardona's low camera angle, reveals herself to be going commando.N.B. This review is for the readily available 63 minute version of the film, which gets a rating of 6.5/10 from me (rounded up to 7 for IMDb). As far as the longer 93 minute version is concerned, I'm guessing that the extra half an hour is either more sex and gore (in which case it probably deserves a slightly higher rating), or another half an hour of Hugo in his whirlybird (in which case I would go slightly lower).

gorillache This is easily the best film I have ever bought from Big Lots. The movie is basically about a crappy 70's dude who flies around in his helicopter and, picks up some crappy 70's chicks, then goes to his castle in Alcupolco and kills em'. Then he keeps their heads in "crystal cages" and feeds their ground up hooker-meat to his kitties. The artistic qualities of this film are exemplified in scenes including a slow-motion chase, zooms on dead animals, and lots of repeat footage. The movie is 63 minutes long but you actually get about 25 minutes of distinct footage. Most of the movie is just scenes with the suave Hugo Stiglitz flying his helicopter and petting his mustache, or something else to make him look bad ass. The dialogue in this movie is rare, but amazing when it happens. I've watched this movie 5 times now and it just keeps getting better. If you have four dollars then i say go to big lots and get it now.

FieCrier I watched the Trinity Home Entertainment DVD titled Night of a 1000 Cats, which mercifully was cheap because it was the 63 minutes long version. Frankly, that running time was probably arrived at by rounding up! The movie has its moments. A guy has a nice time swimming naked in a pool with an attractive woman and takes her by private helicopter to his home. There, he has a hunchbacked servant with a shaved head who dresses in a black robe. He shows the woman his private collection of heads immersed in liquid in clear square containers. She's alarmed when she sees there's one that's empty. Don't worry - they're wax, he lies, and promptly strangles her to death.He's also got a caged area full of cats. When one gets out during dinner, he flings it over the fence back into the cage. Later, he serves them some sort of ground meat that may be one of his girlfriends. However, bodies also appear to be disposed of by being wrapped up and pushed through a small door by his servant.A lot of the movie is spent by the guy flying around in his helicopter to try to spot attractive women and get them to come with him. It takes several fly-bys sometimes to accomplish that, but he usually does.There's an astonishingly small amount of dialogue. I wonder what the half-hour or more that was cut from the movie contains? Mildly recommended if you can see it on the cheap. I'd be curious to see the uncut version.

bloodemurder This movie was recommended to me by an ardent lover of the sick and twisted. I thought that the worst was given away too early, and the film does get caught up in the tedious and seemingly unlikely hunt for new victims. Yet, the film is brief, and does offer enough consistency in characters to allow the genre fan to dispense with realistic expectations. It's not a bad psycho-killer flick - it's horrificly bad.