The Uncanny [Blu-ray]

Director: Denis Heroux Denis Heroux

Overview

In an attempt to sell his manuscript, a writer tries to persuade a prospective publisher that cats are ultimately evil by providing him with three different stories of kitty brutality in this anthology of horror.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/28/2019
UPC:	0663390003015
Original Release:	1977
Source:	Severin
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:29:00
Sales rank:	19,764

Special Features

Closed Caption; The Cat's Victim: interview with actress Susan Penhaligon; Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Peter Cushing	Wilbur Gray
Ray Milland	Frank Richards
Samantha Eggar	Edina Hamilton (segment 3 "Hollywood 1936")
Donald Pleasence	Valentine De'ath (segment 3 "Hollywood 1936")
Susan Penhaligon	Janet
Joan Greenwood	Miss Malkin
Roland Culver	Wallace
Simon Williams	Michael
Alexandra Stewart	Mrs. Joan Blake
Donald Pilon	Mr. Blake
Chloe Franks	Angela Blake
Renee Girard	Mrs. Maitland
Katrina Holden	Lucy
John Vernon	Pomeroy
John LeClerc	Bruce Barrington
Sean McCann	Inspector
Catherine Begin	Madeline
Jean Leclerc	Bruce Barrington
Wilfred Josephs	Composer

Technical Credits

Michel Parry

Michael Albrechtsen	Special Effects
Rene Dupont	Producer
Harold Greenberg	Executive Producer
Denis Heroux	Director,Producer
Robert A. Kantor	Executive Producer
Richard R. St. Johns	Executive Producer
Michel Parry	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Usually, an anthology film such as The Uncanny has a built-in problem, namely: is it better to schedule the strongest segment at the beginning and get things off to a bang or at the end, and hope the audience stays with you that long? Uncanny manages to avoid that dilemma by the simple trick of having no strongest segment: each of its trio of tales is as weak as the others. It's a dubious distinction, but it's also about the only distinction to be had by this trilogy of the terrible. Under pressure and forced to choose, you could perhaps describe the last segment as the most entertaining (or perhaps the least intolerable), merely because Donald Pleasence is on hand to give one of his overbaked performances that may not be good acting but at least has the benefit of providing distraction. As might be surmised, the screenplay is total hack work, and not even decent hack work at that; there's precious little to keep one's attention, and there's not even logic to the premise: Peter Cushing's character may wish to present evidence that cats are evil creatures, but the stories basically paint the creatures as avenging wrongs done to basically innocent people. The cast tries hard, but there's nothing they can do.