Be My Cat: A Film for Anne

 


Name: Be My Cat: A Film for Anne

Directed By: Adrian Țofei

Subgenre: Found Footage, Psychological, Thriller

Series: Spooktober 2019 entry #12; review #43

Review: Be My Cat is about a mentally ill Romanian dude who is absolutely obsessed with Anne Hathaway. The film is a stylized attempt to get her attention by filming the film he would film with Anne once she finally gives him the attention he "deserves." The highlight is the writer, director, and lead actor: Adrian Tofei: he does a phenomenal job of portraying a person with severe, untreated mental illness and the unpredictability therein; the main problem is, the audience mostly already knows what to predict with a film like this, and so Adrian never really feels like he's "flipping the script" with his character as other reviewers like to mention. Similarly, while the supporting acting is quite good for a truly independent film of this nature, there are obviously long improvised scenes that are forced to stretch on far beyond what they should in order to reach a full cinematic run-time. Be My Cat is, in short, a less compelling version of Creep. Between the found footage style framing, the fairly solid acting of the supporting cast, and Adrian's obscenely disconcerting portrayal, the film oozes the same uncomfortable atmosphere of more extreme, independent horror films (The old Guinea Pig films, Tumbling Doll of Flesh, etc.), but the eventual horror/gore bits are entirely off camera, and the tension that builds toward the film's climax is lost after a nice pep-talk by the final girl. While Be My Cat does a great job in portraying the lengths a delusional, obsessive character will go for "love," the actual film is rather plodding and, frankly, not all that interesting. 




Overall Score: 2 out of 5 Chads improvising terror for Anne. Did Be My Cat: A Film for Anne scare you? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below!

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