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Dead Cat

2023 · 13 min

A squirm-inducing little farce that mines parental panic and pet death for queasy laughs, keeping you tense and amused at once.

Directed by: Annie-Claude Caron, Danick Audet
Genres: Comedy, Horror
Starring: Léane Labrèche-Dor, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lilas-Rose Cantin

Tagline: You know your cat's dead, right?
Overview: What were Catherine and Louis thinking when they chose a cat with distinctive white spots? It would have been much easier to replace if they had picked the all-back one. Now, they will have to tell their daughter Sophie that Nugget's dead. Unless..

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Directed by: Annie-Claude Caron, Danick Audet
Genres: Comedy, Horror
Starring: Léane Labrèche-Dor, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lilas-Rose Cantin

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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 1 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: parenthood
death
deception
family
grief
Places: home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	2
Horror	4
Humour	7
Realism	7
Romance	1
Tension	5
Darkness	6
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: comedy, horror
Directed by: Annie-Claude Caron, Danick Audet
Written by: Annie-Claude Caron, Danick Audet
Starring: Léane Labrèche-Dor, Pierre-Yves Cardinal, Lilas-Rose Cantin, Lila Sofia Houle, Évelyne Rompré, Jean Drolet, Fayolle Jean Jr, Kevin Houle
Cinematography: Shawn Pavlin
Runtime: 13 min
Country: Canada
Languages: French

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