Wild Eye Releasing, with
sales and distribution support provided by MVD Entertainment Group, will be
going Down Under for a trip — a very, very weird trip — into the bizarre world
of pet cat grief during the month of June.
The film in question is
writer/director Dave Jackson’s award-winning Cat Sick Blues, which
will be making its domestic DVD debut on June 26.
We are first introduced
to the underground network of cat-grief support groups with Claire (Shian
Denovan), whose internet darling, Imeida — lots of worldwide fans; web fame,
etc. — met with an untimely death.
Claire is trying to cope with her loss.
Who knew that cat-grief
support groups even existed — like AA, 12 steps, sharing, etc. — but there you
have it. Joining the group one evening
is Ted (Matthew C. Vaughan), who seems ever so odd, even by cat-grief support
group standards — which is exactly why the film works (he is indeed ever so
odd).
Ted has also lost his
beloved cat, Patrick, which, as it turns out, has been more traumatic than he
has been able to cope with. The support
group, where he develops a friendly relationship with Claire — they can share
their experiences and grief over a meal — is, as we soon will find out, not
really going to get Ted past his current issues. He tells Claire that he doesn’t have to get
through the steps of grieving Patrick’s loss, because Patrick is coming back!!!
Oh boy, Ted is one
strange ranger, who has constructed a cat suit — a cat mask and razor-sharp kitty
cat claws — and has gotten it into his head that if he can slaughter nine human
beings (hint: a cat has nine lives) Patrick, who is stashed away in Ted’s
freezer, will magically come back to life.
The local Melbourne news
outlets are full of a slasher-on-the-prowl news as our boy Ted is out and about
working on getting the body count up to nine.
Will Claire make the connection?
Will Claire join Ted’s “nine lives” campaign? Will Patrick come back from the dead? These questions, and more, will be answered
to the delight of genre fans on June 26.
Cat Sick Blues is a wicked mix of deadpan/black humor — you just
got to love Matthew C. Vaughan, he’s perfect as Ted — and all-out slasher
flick.
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