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3 | Short British horror film, released in 2001. A mixture of live-action and stop-motion animation, it was written, directed, and animated by Robert Morgan. |
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5 | It focuses on an old man telling his younger companion an old folk tale about a cat that has human hands in place of its front paws, and of the terrible things that the cat does. |
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7 | [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4PR9NZlAB4 It can be viewed here.]] |
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10 | !!This work provides examples of: |
11 | * AnimalisticAbomination: The titular cat, a man-eating monstrosity [[spoiler:that is stealing parts from humans to become one itself]]. |
12 | * BecomeARealBoy: [[spoiler:The cat's goal is to become human, which it accomplishes by stealing people's parts, a bit at a time. The last part it needs is a human's tongue, which it steals from the old man.]] |
13 | * BodyHorror: It stars a cat with human hands. [[spoiler: And eventually more human parts than that.]] |
14 | * CatsAreMean: The Cat with Hands is the villain of the story, [[spoiler:stealing human body parts and then devouring them. Becoming a person doesn't make it any nicer]]. |
15 | * HollywoodToneDeaf: The old man isn't a very good singer, tending toward severely flat. |
16 | * HongKongDub: The one word spoken by the young man isn't even vaguely lip-synced. |
17 | * HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: The young man is actually the cat.]] |
18 | * ImAHumanitarian: The cat eats humans [[spoiler:once it's taken a part from them]]. |
19 | * KissOfDeath: The kiss doesn't kill him, but it definitely signals that the old man is nearing his end. |
20 | * TheQuietOne: The companion does not seem to say much. [[spoiler: Until he takes the old man's tongue.]] |
21 | * StopMotion: A flashback is told entirely through eerie stop-motion animation. |
22 | * TearOffYourFace: [[spoiler:The cat does this to the boy in the flashback, taking the face for its own.]] |
23 | * TongueTrauma: The old man's tongue is pulled out by [[spoiler: his younger companion, who is also the cat]]. |
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