Bringing a whole new meaning to "If I fits, I sits."
Uninvited is a horror film from 1988, which stars Alex Cord and George Kennedy.
An experimental killer mutant cat, that is hiding inside a normal cat, escapes from laboratory, and ends up in yacht full of cannon fodder. And yes, it was released straight to video.
Received the RiffTrax treatment in 2017.
This film has the examples of:
- Agony of the Feet: When Mike tries get a gun from under the sofa, the mutant cat latches its teeth on his foot.
- Animal Testing: What created the mutant cat.
- Attempted Rape: Walter tries to force himself on Bobbie. He is then thwarted by Lance, who in turn is stopped from clobbering him by Mike with a gun.
- Bizarre Alien Biology: The cat monster has such a massive case of this it ends up causing some Plot Holes. Basically, it looks like an ordinary cat but also has a smaller mutant cat monster living inside it. In most of the attack scenes, the cat monster emerges part way from the host cat's mouth (as shown in the picture) to attack someone. However, we see later that the cat monster can leave the host cat, which falls into a vegetative state whenever the cat monster is outside of it, for no apparent reason. The oddest part is that the cat monster is much bigger when it's outside the host cat (probably even bigger than the host, in fact), meaning it must have some kind of offscreen Sizeshifter powers. Why they made the whole thing so complicated is unknown, although it may have been originally intended as some kind of shapeshifter, but the special effects for that weren't in the budget.
- Body Horror: Bites from the mutant cat leaves its victim in a painful pulsating state before death.
- Cats Are Mean: Whenever its host feels threatened, the mutant breaks out from its mouth.
- Closed Circle: The yacht. Enforced by the fact that its owner Walter is on the run from the law, and refuses all attempts to take it back. The fact that the mutant cat managed to sabotage its engine doesn't help matters.
- Creator Cameo: Writer/producer/director Greydon Clark plays Dr. Grey, one of the scientists studying the cat, in the film’s opening.
- Dead Star Walking: George Kennedy was the biggest name on the cast and is one of the first people on the boat to be killed off by the cat.
- Death by Materialism: Walter is killed by the cat when he goes back for his money as others are boarding the rescue boat.
- The End... Or Is It?: The film ends with the surviving characters safely back on shore with Walter's money, recounting their story to a helpful official (who assumes they're just traumatized)...as a child finds another cat in the surf.
- Evil Overlooker: One of the covers for the film shows the mutant cat looming over the yacht, which has a skull on it for extra terror.
- Grievous Bottley Harm: When the mutant cat attacks Albert, he tries to defend himself with a broken wine bottle.
- Never Trust a Title: The cat monster technically isn't uninvited, as the human characters bring the cat onto the yacht with them.
- Overcrank: Random slow motion shots are scattered throughout the film, most notably during the pickup crash.
- Poisonous Person: The mutant cat is poisonous, which seals the fate of anyone it attacks.
- Sex Signals Death: Corey sleeps with Suzanne, and Lance tries to sleep with Bobbie. And all four end up dead.
- Stock Sound Effects: The same sound effect of glass breaking is repeated over a dozen times when the mutant cat crashes the pickup.
- Similarly, stock cat yowling is looped nigh endlessly, even when the actual stunt cat looks perfectly calm and content.
- Tampering with Food and Drink: Whatever the cat nibbles on becomes contaminated. This leads to Suzanne's death when she is killed by a corn flake.
- Verbed Title
- Your Size May Vary: While inside its host, the mutant cat is small. But when it exits the host, it is somehow bigger.
