Eye of the Cat

This offbeat potboiler from Psycho scripter Joseph Stefano involves a plot hatched by mod couple Wylie (Michael Sarrazin) and Kassia (Gayle Hunnicutt) to murder Wylie's wealthy, cat-loving aunt Danny (Eleanor Parker). There's only one hitch in their scheme, but it's a doozy: Wylie suffers from a ...more

Somewhere between Freudian psychobabble and Roger Corman freak-outs lies Eye of the Cat, which proves that a producer can hire the screenwriter of Psycho (Joseph Stefano), the animal trainer from The Birds (Ray Berwick), Edith Head, and Lalo Schifrin (channeling Bernard Herrmann), but without a director like Alfred Hitchcock you're still going to fall far short of a memorable horror film. It's still fun, combining '60s exploitation (groovy San Francisco, girl fights, Bond-ready actress Gayle ...more