Night of a Thousand Cats (1972)

Directed by Rene Cardona Jr
Starring Anjanette Comer, Hugo Stiglitz, Zulma Faiad 

"Dorgo, the cats are hungry!" 

Holy smokes, I love this movie. Some rich creep in a cool leather jacket lives in a creaky old castle and for some unknown reason he has a thousand cats. They’re all corralled in a pen and at night he hucks chunks of meat at them. Occasionally one of them makes it over the fence and he just grabs it by the tail and tosses it back into the cat-pit. Why? Who knows? His other thing is he picks up hot Mexican women in bikinis (sometimes in his helicopter) and brings them back to his castle. After wining and dining them he chops off their heads and puts ‘em in jars.  Plus sometimes he plays chess with his evil henchman while wearing a silk bathrobe and smoking one of those weird opium pipes like the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland had. I watched the version on Amazon Prime. It’s only 63 minutes long so probably all the stuff that might explain what’s going on has been chopped out. Doesn’t matter tho. You’ll get it. Great soundtrack, too. Mostly bongos.

- Ken McIntyre