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“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
– Margaret Atwood
We’ve all had bad dates. Y’know the ones I mean: Those dates that are so irrevocably bad that, when looking back on them years later through a prism of semi-objectivity, we reach a reassuring hand out to our husband or wife, or boyfriend or girlfriend, so grateful that after such a bad experience we were ultimately fortunate enough to wind up with our Better Half. Perhaps it’s this sense of commonality or universality which helped author Kristen Roupenian’s cautionary bad date from hell story Cat Person resound with so many folks upon its publication in The New Yorker back in 2017. That little slice of cultural nightmare writ large as a suspense tale has certainly had legs over the years and it’s no wonder why: Following the story of a woman called Margot who gets involved briefly with a coworker, Cat Person posits what happens next after an unfulfilled evening of bad sex. Hint: It ain’t good. It’s not long before Margot’s coworker takes major umberance with receiving the heave-ho and begins texting her all sorts of nasty messages. Ah, dating in the turbo-charged world of the internet.
From our Blind Date fanatics over at Bloody Disgusting, comes the news today that the trailer for the motion picture adaptation of Cat Person has officially premiered, and it looks to be a doozy. Curious? Then click right here on this handy-dandy link to see what all of the fuss is about, Dear and Constant Reader.
Making a big splash at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Cat Person is now poised for a major theatrical release just in time for Halloween, production house Rialto Pictures has announced. Directed by Susanna Fogel of The Spy Who Dumped Me fame, this new movie penned by Michelle Ashford features an all-star cast set to bring Roupenian’s Dating Do’s and Don’ts for Millennials to full-fledged and very unsettling life.
A sort of Fatal Attraction primer for the computer age, Cat Person scratches into theaters this October 6.
