This 80′s flick is about a group of people stuck on a boat in the middle of the ocean. Is their shared nemesis a giant man-eating shark? No. Is it a huge squid threatening to overturn the boat? No. It surely can’t be a small housecat can it? Why yes it is! But this cat has a secret. This cat has escaped from a medical lab and carries a deadly secret within. It’s another cat! But this one is ravenous for flesh and carries a deadly poison in it’s fangs. It hides in the cute little kitty until it feels provoked, then it births itself out of the cat’s mouth and begins its reign on terror on the high seas.

This movie is as crazy as the above description. It’s full of hackneyed 80′s cliches of all types including the rich mobster, the cool kid with wavy blond hair, the nerdy guy with glasses, and the slutty girls with hair so big it fills the camera frame from twenty feet away. The effects in this movie are horrible, the practical cat that is running around the boat looks like it’s just going aimlessly in and out of frame, and all the effects shots of the demon cat are obviously puppet effects (although there is one great scene at the end where the demon cat is actually thrown at the actor…Twice!). I wouldn’t necessarily call this movie a “so-good-it’s-bad” movie. It was fun, but that’s it. A decent distraction if your in the mood for a cheesy 80′s horror movie that you may not have already seen already.

And speaking of cheesy 80′s horror movies…

Mutant

This movie is another 80′s horror flick thinly disguised as a zombie film. The plot focuses on two brothers (who could be stand-in’s for the Bo and Luke Duke if it wasn’t for their bad perms (think William Katt from ‘Greatest American Hero’)) who get run off the road while they are driving through a small redneck town. This town doesn’t like new people, and the brothers are immediately accosted at the local tavern where they are saved from getting killed by the local sheriff. The sheriff is a walking cliche. He’s a loner who once had a fleeting romance with the town’s cute doctor. He’s a recovering alcoholic with a dark past where he may or may not have shot and killed an unarmed kid, and is now the laughing stock of the town.

The town itself has a secret. There is a “flu” of some sort making people sick one by one. Nobody seems to think this is a problem however and no outside authorities are called. This is typical horror movie logic after all. With only a few people left in the town and the rest of them turned into flesh-eating zombies (and I use the term zombie loosely here because they may not actually be dead, only infected, and the rules in which they spread the infection are played fast and loose, and inconsistent throughout the whole movie). They’re only weakness seems to be from light, particularly sunlight. This is convenient because then it gives them an excuse to come out at night and terrorize the protagonists.

The ending is very “Night of the Living Dead”, with only 2 survivors remaining before the cavalry shows up to dispatch of the zombies that have surrounded them.

Both of these movies are truly horrible, but might make for a decent double-feature of 80′s cheese that would probably play well as a drinking game at a college or Halloween party.