Online Response to Universal’s ‘Cats’ Colors the Kittens Creepy. Check Out an A-Lister’s Must-See Re-Scored Horror Version

Have you seen the trailer for Universal’s silver screen version of Andrew Lloyd Weber’s Broadway biggie Cats?

The feline film is coming to a theater near you, and some online are noting the project’s creepiness. Select cinemaphiles are even likening the kitty cult colossus’s movie manifestation to a horror flick.

See for yourself:

Check out some of the responses — including those of a few celebrities:

Stewie just saw the “Cats” trailer. pic.twitter.com/vNuYqa1TLl

— Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) July 19, 2019

I don’t know why you’re all freaking out over miniature yet huge cats with human celebrity faces and sexy breasts performing a demented dream ballet for kids.

— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) July 18, 2019

From The Office’s Dwight:

I just saw the trailer for Cats. I’ve decided to remove my eyes with a spoon and only listen to Norwegian death metal until the end of time. #Cats

— RainnWilson (@rainnwilson) July 19, 2019

Every still from the CATS trailer is a different Goosebumps book for queer and questioning youth. pic.twitter.com/ZnGZ16Jkh1

— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) July 20, 2019

Watching the #Cats trailer: pic.twitter.com/vnWeExSr6q

— Cinememes (@Cinememes_) July 19, 2019

Bette Midler got in a political jab:

People are livid over the trailer for Cats! Listen, even if the whole thing was just Dame Judi Dench coughing up a hairball, it would STILL be better than watching AMERICA trying to hack out the slimy hairball in the Oval Office!

— Bette Midler (@BetteMidler) July 19, 2019

Here’s a reference to another movie which you must see — the absolutely hilarious What We Do in the Shadows:

Let’s face it… we were all thinking this… #CatsTrailer pic.twitter.com/IZGtSzABIX

— Luke Friend (@LukeFriendMusic) July 19, 2019

Given the trailer’s nod to nightmares, director Jordan Peele shared a version of the clip overlaid with the music from his horror hit Us — which I highly recommend you see and then read all about afterward — the theories online go deep. Here’s the re-scored version. Let me know what you think. See if it gets your motor running (and tell me if you liked Us):

Yes. https://t.co/xyittLIaA9

— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) July 19, 2019

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