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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.

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.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4PR9NZlAB4 It can be viewed here.]]

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!!This work provides examples of:
* AnimalisticAbomination: The titular cat, a man-eating monstrosity [[spoiler:that is stealing parts from humans to become one itself]].
* 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.]]
* BodyHorror: It stars a cat with human hands. [[spoiler: And eventually more human parts than that.]]
* 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]].
* HollywoodToneDeaf: The old man isn't a very good singer, tending toward severely flat.
* HongKongDub: The one word spoken by the young man isn't even vaguely lip-synced.
* HumanoidAbomination: [[spoiler: The young man is actually the cat.]]
* ImAHumanitarian: The cat eats humans [[spoiler:once it's taken a part from them]].
* KissOfDeath: The kiss doesn't kill him, but it definitely signals that the old man is nearing his end.
* TheQuietOne: The companion does not seem to say much. [[spoiler: Until he takes the old man's tongue.]]
* StopMotion: A flashback is told entirely through eerie stop-motion animation.
* TearOffYourFace: [[spoiler:The cat does this to the boy in the flashback, taking the face for its own.]]
* TongueTrauma: The old man's tongue is pulled out by [[spoiler: his younger companion, who is also the cat]].
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