Cat's Eye- Quitter's, Inc.

Cat’s Eye is one of those horror pictures made up of a bunch of stories like Creepshow ‘n shit.  There are three here with one being about a gangster that forces this guy to walk around the ledge on the top floor of a casino and another is about some killer troll/goblin thing that attacks a little girl (Drew Barrymore).  Those are both pretty crappy so by default the best story is the first.  It’s about a smoker (James Woods) that wants to quit so he goes to this agency run by Alan King to help him (yeah I thought he was a weird choice too).  But the catch is King will torture Woods’ family if he relapses so the pressure’s on. 

I like this concept and think it could have been a whole movie by itself so I was sad to see it end.  Woods is great as usual and King is surprisingly menacing.  There’s a good amount of tension and I like how it builds seemingly like there’s no way for Woods to escape the clutches of this mad man.

Here’s a funny clip where Woods is at a party and everyone (including the kids!) is smoking.  Some even have cigarettes in their ears (?).  I love the shot of the guy with his head back blowing out an endless stream of smoke with the woman gazing at him with a huge smile on her face.  The drunk is James Rebhorn (Meet the Parents, Basic Instinct) who does a great job of almost stealing the scene but it’s just so surreal and wacky.