Strays
Strays
| 18 December 1991 (USA)
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A young married couple and their daughter are terrorized by a pride of ferocious feral felines.

Reviews
Inclubabu Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.
Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.
Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...
FieCrier Really stupid bad movie. An older woman with a lot of cats is attacked by something that more or less flies at her, apparently a feral cat (we don't see it, only hear it growling). A couple with a young daughter move into the house; the wife's sister is the real estate agent, and she is also a client of the husband, a divorce lawyer. The wife grows jealous of her sister and in fact, her sister does seem to be pretty slutty and controlling.The daughter is annoying and stupid. The wife is hysterical, somewhat shrewish, and stupid. The husband is fairly stupid too. The cats (evidently the woman's pets now work for the strange black cat that killed her) as a threat are not particularly convincing. More or less, you have to fall down and be knocked unconscious to be seriously hurt by them.At one point the husband tries to microwave his coffee. The microwave doesn't work because it has a badly frayed power cord. A divorce lawyer who works in the city can't afford to repair the cord or get a new microwave? With a young daughter in the house, you want a frayed wire (not to mention the fire hazard)? They don't even unplug the microwave when it proves unable to microwave when the cable is jiggled. There must be another reason why they don't replace it or unplug it... and there is. There are other elements in the movie that are similarly telegraphed way ahead of time.The director likes a lot of cat point-of-view shots which gets to be pretty corny, and also likes zooms in on and close-ups of inanimate objects. There are also a couple of false endings at the end, where it seems like the movie should be over, but it keeps going.
BloodTheTelepathicDog A married couple purchase a rural home so they can raise their daughter in a better atmosphere. Soon thereafter, they find out that their new country dreamhouse is ruled by evil feral cats, hell bent on killing anything that moves, or doesn't move, as a pine tree gets assailed.You'll laugh often, when you aren't suppose to, but the suspense was there, thanks to highly underrated actress Kathleen Quinlan, portraying the mother.Okay for a one time viewing, especially if you want to laugh at cats killing people. Although the ringleader of the ferals was a evil looking creature, who looked as if it would rather be shooting a Friskies commercial, than pestering poor Kathleen Quinlan.Claudia Christian was the most deviant vixen in this film however, those mangy sinister felines had nothing on her.
mlee85 This movie has a very interesting plot. A family moves into a new home and are terrorized by cats. It just sounds like another "nature out of control" killer animal type movies. And it is, but with cats. Come on, CATS! You could probably name any animal and it would probably have a horror movie about it, but I think that cats is probably the absolute worst choice for an animal killer. Like another user said, Cujo can tear your leg off, Jaws can chew you to bits, and insects can bite and swarm, but cats weight about 10 lbs, and the only thing they can do is scratch and bite. Any other animal would have made this movie scarier, even mice. Of course, there are horror movies about them, and they are scary because, they can bite and swarm, but when cats have always been looked at as "cute and cuddly" pets, a movie like this doesn't seem as scary as all the others. It just looks stupid. If you are a catlover, stay away from this at all costs. I, myself, am a catlover, and after watching it, you just sorta get a weird feeling. The only good thing about this movie is the acting, which I think was pretty decent. The cast did good when pretending to be afraid of these cats. This movie has wasted all nine of it's lives.
arielle-2 I just saw this today and it was so ridiculously cheap and silly I had to give it a whole whopping "6". How an 8 lb. cat can knock down a 180 lb. man I will never understand but little details like that just don't seem to matter in this movie. One of my favorite scenes is the artsy little shot of the yellow rubber ducky floating over the edge of the flooded bath tub....oh, the subtle innuendos-Yeah right! Check it out if your'e sittin' around & it comes on the tube...or if you really hate cats. Otherwise don't bother unless you want to give your kids nightmares so they'll stop begging you to keep that adorable little kitty.