Despite being envisioned as a family comedy, Mike Myers' The Cat in the Hat has been reimagined as a horror movie in a new fan trailer. Loosely based on Dr. Seuss' book of the same name, the story centers on siblings Conrad and Sally as they are left at home on a rainy day by their real estate agent single mom with a lethargic babysitter and warned not to make a mess or put her job at risk. The bored kids find their world turned upside down with the arrival of The Cat in the Hat, who proceeds to cause chaos around the house, much to the chagrin of the kids' goldfish and their mom's sinister boyfriend.
Mike Myers led the cast of The Cat in the Hat in the titular role alongside Spencer Breslin, Dakota Fanning, Alec Baldwin, Kelly Preston, Amy Hill and Sean Hayes. Development on the film was originally set to kick off in the late '90s with Tim Allen playing The Cat, only for scheduling conflicts with The Santa Clause 2 forcing him to drop out and Myers brought on as part of a deal stemming from a cancelled Saturday Night Live film. Hitting theaters in late 2003, The Cat in the Hat was a critical disaster upon release and one audience member is looking back on the film with their own unique twist.
Nearly 20 years after the film first hit theaters, YouTube user YourMovieSucksDOTOrg has shared a Cat in the Hat fan trailer. The video, edited by fellow YouTuber Heyo Damo, reimagines the Mike Myers-led Dr. Seuss adaptation as a horror movie, putting a dark lighting over various scenes from the film paired with a terrifying track and the A24 logo. Check out the hilarious fan trailer below:
The Cat in the Hat marked the second live-action adaptation of a Dr. Seuss book after the Jim Carrey-led How the Grinch Stole Christmas a few years prior. Though receiving generally mixed reviews from critics, the 2000 Christmas film was generally better received, namely for Carrey's performance, and fared far better at the box office than The Cat in the Hat, grossing over $345 million in comparison to Cat's $133 million haul, a poor showing given its $109 million budget. The Cat in the Hat's poor reception would see it garner a whopping eight Razzie nominations, including Worst Picture and Worst Actor for Myers, only bringing home Worst Excuse for an Actual Movie (All Concept/No Content) while the Ben Affleck-led Gigli swept in nearly every other category.
The infamous poor reception to Mike Myers' The Cat in the Hat saw Dr. Seuss' widow Audrey Geisel disallowing any further live-action adaptations of the author's books, only allowing animated films in the years since. Most of these have fared generally better with critics and audiences alike, namely 2008's Horton Hears a Who!. With nearly two decades in its rearview, Warner Bros. has begun developing a new The Cat in the Hat animated adaptation in the hopes of launching a Dr. Seuss cinematic universe.
Source: YourMovieSucksDOTOrg