The Uninvited Reviews

A mutant cat that occasionally spits up a monster hand puppet from it's craw is the less-than-terrifying beastie in this straight-to-video release. Coeds Bobbie (Clare Carey) and Suzanne (Shari Shattuck) are on spring break in Florida, where they meet Walter Graham (Alex Cord), a well-known financier whose fingers are in some less-than-legal pies. With the authorities closing in on him, Graham plans to sail off and retire to some beach without an extradition agreement. The girls are invited along as cover, and they bring along three guys. George Kennedy and Clu Gulager also appear, rounding out the passengers and crew under skipper Rachel (Toni Hudson). The girls also bring along a stray cat, which escaped from a secret government lab in the first scene. The feline is infected with some sort of parasitic disease that allows the monster inside it to crawl out and kill with one bite or to infect the food supply. THE UNINVITED is a lousy film by any standards, but it is made worse by the silliest monster since the moving rug in THE CREEPING TERROR. The thing is blatantly a hand puppet obtruding from an obviously stuffed cat, and the sight of once-respectable actors like Kennedy shrieking over this menace is too ridiculous for words. Horror veteran Gulager's bespectacled, besotted henchman is the only memorable human here. Too bad he's the first to die.