Segment #2 is adapted from the short story The Ledge, It sees a gambler who is blackmailed by his nemesis and forced to walk around the very tight ledge of a high-rise building. The man is put under constant creepy surveillance and is informed that even a single puff of a cigarette will result in terrible consequences for his closest loved ones. Unbeknownst to him, Quitter’s Inc is essentially a criminal organisation that goes to extreme lengths.
The first segment is Quitter’s Inc, which follows James Woods as a man so desperate to quit smoking that he signs up for a special program. Unfortunately for both the helpless child and our heroic kitty, the animal keeps getting waylaid and thrust into other adventures, to observe and sometimes act on the sidelines. He travels the United States by paw, by train and by hitchhiking in the back of trucks, all in search of a little girl in distress, whose voice inexplicably calls to the cat. Video Essay version with clips, if you prefer: Īll three segments are loosely connected by the exploits of a cute little cat. For this film, King himself wrote the screenplay, mining his short story collection Night Shift for two of the tales, and inventing a new story for the grand finale.
Slap-bang in the middle of these films came Cat’s Eye in 1985. These threads sometimes intertwined, most famously with the Creepshow movies in 19. 1980s horror films had two consistent threads Anthologies and Stephen King adaptations.
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