Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

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).

Coventry In case you're a fan of "The Simpsons" (and who honestly isn't?), you probably are familiar with the hilarious supportive character of Crazy Cat-Lady. This totally dysfunctional and rather uncanny woman surrounds herself with an army of cats and even uses them as artillery to throw at people. Well, the main character of this film – Hugo – is sort of like the richer, more civilized, male and cinematic equivalent of Crazy Cat-Lady! For completely unexplained reasons, Hugo keeps A LOT (but surely not a thousand) of cats in the basement of the family castle, and that's definitely not the only curious aspect of his life-style. Hugo has everything in life others could only dream of. He's filthy rich, supposedly good looking (although I personally think he looks too much like Daniel Stern), he has a giant castle with a hunchbacked servant, a fancy helicopter and oceans of time to spot & stalk ravishing women. And yet, despite all his wealth, Hugo is a sick man who collects people's heads in pickled jars and feeds the leftovers to his collection of loudly meowing cats. He seduces women by endlessly circling his helicopter over their houses, finally manages to take them home and then kills them after only one night of hot passionate sex. He repeats this strange ritual no less than four times throughout the film (at least, in the fully uncut version) before the ravenous pets break out of their lair and aggressively turn against their master. "Night of a 1.000 Cats" is an utterly dumb and pointless movie. I know not to expect too much from the Mexican exploitation efforts directed by René Cardona Jr., but this has got to be one of the most incoherent and plot-less films I ever endured. There isn't a single bit of elementary logic or depth in the script and the absence of continuity is almost infuriating! Why the hell is Hugo so upset with the world even though he's probably the luckiest man on the planet? Why start a collection of decapitated human heads if your ancestors always collected stamps? Why doesn't he ever get caught even though his modus operandi of picking up girls in a helicopter isn't exactly subtle or inconspicuous? Why on earth would someone keep an army of cats in his basement even though he clearly doesn't show any affection for animals? There sure are easier ways to get rid of cadavers. At least you'd expect a nonsensical and trashy film like this to be entertaining and over-the-top gory, but it really isn't. Most of the footage in the full version is intolerably tedious and unnecessary, like Hugo flying around in his helicopter and standing guard at the gates of women's houses. I noticed there's a 63 minutes version available, so in case you do want to see this film for some incomprehensible reason, make sure you purchase the short version. The full version certainly doesn't contain any more graphic violence, sleazy sex sequences or corpse-eating cat action, I guarantee you. The photography, editing and sound effects are all incredibly tacky and amateurish. Hugo Stiglitz is a lousy actor without the slightest bit of charisma, but still René Cardona seemed to enjoy working with him, as Stiglitz also appears in the terribly inane Jaws-rip off "Tintorera", "Treasure of the Amazon" and "The Bermuda Triangle". This turkey is one to avoid at all costs, unless you want mew harder than a serenade of a thousand cats.

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.

alvaro_dd what an awful movie! I was hoping to see an undiscovered classic and what I got was something like a tacky 70´s after shave commercial; crap acting, crap visuals...what a waste of a suitably crazy plot.On the other hand ,all the sex scenes seemed to be removed from the spanish version that I saw, altough it appears to be slightly longer than the others ( 93 minutes)...at least some gratuitous nudity would have helped me to stay awake.