Scaredy Cat (1948)

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

"Scaredy Cat" is a Warner Bros short film from over 65 years ago that combines once again the talents of Chuck Jones, Michael Maltese and Mel Blanc. Porky enters a haunted house, but initially, the only one who sees all the spooky things is his cat Sylvester and he is scared as hell. Porky thinks Sylvester is a coward until he gets caught by the mice himself in what is possibly the funniest moment of the film. Finally, it is Sylvester's turn to save his master and show he is truly courageous. What we see then is basically almost an example of how Sylvester has some kind of super power. Too bad we don't see the details. And after he manages to chase away all these mice, he is back to his normal incompetent self when he gets knocked out by just one of them. All in all, a solid short film, but nowhere near Warner Bros's best. Still, if you like old cartoons, this one is checking out for the horror aspects I guess. Thumbs up.

. . . At least, Sylvester Cat needs to communicate with Porky Pig through an elaborate method of pantomime, during the Warner Bros. animated short SCAREDY CAT. While Sylvester yaks a lot with other cats in many of his Looney Tunes episodes with Tweety Bird, and he often tries to bridge the Generation Gap with his son, Junior, while getting beaten up during his encounters with Hippety Hopper, there's barely a peep out of Sylvester throughout SCAREDY CAT, whether he's contending with his owner Porky or the mice marauding through their not-so-new home. Though this loyal Super Cat saves Porky's bacon from rodent attacks via falling anvil and rolling bowling ball, Porky is not very appreciative until Sylvester breaks up the Big Ham's date with the Guillotine. Since mice in the basement and suicide-by-gun are facts of American Life that we've all experienced, Warner Bros. should be commended for finding the humor in such situations, allowing us all to laugh about it later (except for the mice and the folks who are steady shots).

In the first Sylvester/Porky pairing, they move into an abandoned house, which Sylvester discovers is inhabited by killer mice. Every time that he saves Porky from getting murdered, the clueless Porky thinks that Sylvester is the crazy one. Sylvester just never seems to have any luck! One thing that I wondered was whether or not the apparently evil rodents are supposed to be Hubie and Bertie (or their relatives); they looked pretty similar. If you've seen enough Looney Tunes cartoons, you may recall that Hubie and Bertie are those mice who play all sorts of nasty tricks on Claude the Cat to get him out of the house.Oh well. Whether they are or not, "Scaredy Cat" is still a great cartoon. "Claws for Alarm" had almost exactly the same plot.

An old house, porky, sylvester, some ghouls, and killer mice! What a combo. Porky Pig moves into an old house with his scitsophrantic pussy cat. The house itself looks like the Bates House from the movie Psycho. But anyways, Sylvester keeps on seeing these strange apparitions, and then finally gets really creeped out when he sees a group of axe holding mice draging a tied up cat down a dark hallway. Sylvester then tries numerous times to stay in porky's room instead of sleeping down in the kitchen. The mice start to try and kill porky (sylvester is the only one who notices of course) and when he tries to save him, it backfire's leaving sylvester in pain. A great cartoon! One of my favorites!