Cat Creature (1973 film)
Summary
A mysterious shopkeeper is the key to feline terror tied to the theft of an ancient amulet.
Details
- Release Date: 1973
- Country/Language: US, English
- Genres/Technical: Mystery, Horror, Thriller, made-for-TV
- Setting: 1970s California
- Runtime: 1 hr 12 min
- Starring: Meredith Baxter, David Hedison, Gale Sondergaard
- Director: Curtis Harrington
- Writer: Robert Bloch (teleplay), Douglas S. Cramer and Wilford Lloyd Baumes (story)
- Producer/Production Co: Douglas S. Cramer Company, Screen Gems Television
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Ratings
MPAA Ratings
- Rated: (not rated) (equivalent to a TV-PG for mild Violence and Adult Content)
Tentacle Ratings
A rough measure of how "Lovecraftian" the work is:
- S____ (One Tentacle: Debateably Lovecraftian; has almost no direct connection to Lovecraft's work)
Written by Lovecraft correspondent Robert Bloch, about a cat-demon/mummified Bast cultist unleashed on crooks and cultists in 1970s California. It comes across a bit like a lost episode of "Kolchak: the Night Stalker", without everyone's favorite tabloid reporter, probably as much because of Bloch's participation as for the weird subject matter and for being a product of the same time and setting.
Note: This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of how closely related to Lovecraftian "Weird" fiction the work is.
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Associated Mythos Elements
- film: compare to Night Stalker (1972 franchise) and Cat People (1942 franchise)
- tome: an unnamed tome of Egyptian lore is consulted, and several occult books appear in the background at the occult bookstore where much of the action takes place
- race: Cat Demon
- deity: Bast
- location: Sorcerer's Apprentice Occult Bookstore
- artifact: Gold Bast Medallion (acts "like a stake for vampires" in rendering cat demons helpless)
- cult: Cult of Bubastis
Keeper Notes
- The investigators are called in to follow the trail of bodies left in the wake of a vampiric cat-demon raised from the dead after a protective amulet is stolen from the casket of a mummified cultist of Bast.
