| Overview: | She's one crazy kitty!
Because she's in the middle of a mental break-down, crackpot Virginia can't join her brother on safari and decides to go big game hunting in the Big Apple instead. Inviting three strangers to her trophy - an actor, a junkie, and a wrestler (played by boxing legend Jake La motta!)- she offers them $100,000 each if they "can stay alive in Manhattan for 24 hours." The catch? She's going to hunt them down like animals. Since each of them has previously gotten away with murder, Virginia takes a cue from The Most Dangerous Game and announces she's willing to pay for the privilege of being the public executioner: "It'll be a game! I'm going to hunt you down. Then I shall kill you.," Which is exactly what she does. But why, you ask, is wacky, crackling, wide-eyed Virginia such a "psycho cat"? Simple. When she was a little girl, her brother threw her pet doggie off a roof...
With twisted violence, macabre humor, and lots of gratuitous skin (it was apparently shot as a straight horror film with the nude scenes added a year or two later), CONFESSIONS OF A PSYCHO CAT is a delirious, out-of-its-mind instant cult classick, and the scene where Virginia dresses like a toreador to come after "Raging Bull" La Motta is exploitation at its best! (And wouldn't you have loved seeing Robert De Niro recreate that magic moment?)
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