Tomcat: Dangerous Desires (1993)

There are several disturbing animal scenes in this film. In one scene Jackie is in her lab working with a grasshopper type bug which she has attached to a mat with pins in each one of it’s legs. While she is working, her partner comes in and they have a disagreement about a cat that he wants to use in an experiment. He approaches the cat, who is in a cage, but the cat does not come. He grabs the cat by the back of the neck and pulls him towards the cage opening, at which time Jackie comes and takes the cat away from him. While they are still arguing about the cat, Jackie becomes very upset and starts dumping all of the insect specimens onto the floor, with bugs landing everywhere. She takes one container of roaches and throws them onto her assistant, who brushes the bugs onto the floor. Jackie storms out of the lab leaving her assistant behind. While he is standing beside a file cabinet, he sees a large beetle walking along the top of the cabinet. The man makes a fist and smashes the beetle, brushing the squashed bug onto the floor. In another scene Jackie is watching a tape that she had made of the operation that she performed on Tom. On this tape we see a Tabby cat lying on a surgical table, the skin on its head laid open and tubes running out of its head and mouth. This same tape is also shown in three other scenes. Other cats are also present in a few other scenes. American Humane was not informed of this production, and therefore was not on the set. Futher, after several attempts to contact the production company regarding the animal action, we were unable to get any data.