Eye of the Cat is a 1969 American horror film directed by David Lowell Rich and starring Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, and Eleanor Parker.

[2] Danielle, a rich, elderly woman, accompanied by her nephew, Luke, goes to a beauty parlor to get her hair done.

Later, Danny wakes up in her bed and tries to tell the doctor that Wiley and Kassia are trying to kill her but goes unconscious due to being given a sleeping pill.

Kassia goes into Danny's room and tries to shut off her oxygen, but is thwarted by a hissing orange cat that appears to be the same one electrocuted earlier.

While Luke takes Wylie into the cellar and then goes into Danny's room, Kassia picks up the bowl of meat used to lure the cats, and they cause her to spill it all upon herself.

Howard Thompson of The New York Times called the plot "an overstated, reworked and all too familiar one," and found the climax "as hokey as it is horrible.

"[3] Variety wrote that the plot developments were "telegraphed from the beginning of the pic" and that the script "was written for scare value with little attention paid to gaps in logic," though director David Lowell Rich was commended for getting the actors "to speak bad lines with straight faces.

"[4] Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called the film "so unintentionally hilarious that one would be tempted to recommend it were not the price of theater admissions so high these days.

"[5] Gary Arnold of The Washington Post called the film "Transparently clever but fundamentally trite," and suggested the film "would make more sense if the murderers succeeded and then found to their dismay that Aunt Danny's cats, supposedly long gone, were gradually finding their way back home, as cats are wont to do.