You may only have one life, but UNINVITED's killer kitty takes full advantage of his nine on Vinegar Syndrome's Blu-ray/DVD combo.

Bobbie (Clare Carey, WAXWORK) and Suzanne (Shari Shattuck, DEATH SPA) are in Fort Lauderdale for spring break and unable to find anywhere to stay. While trying to crash in the lobby of a large hotel, they are noticed by stock market whiz Walter Graham (Alex Cord, THE DEAD ARE ALIVE) who invites them to dinner and to join him later at a party on his yacht before he has to attend to business with his associate Mike (George Kennedy, BOLERO) and bucktoothed henchman Albert (Clu Gulager, RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD) by whacking an accountant (Michael Holden) who is cracking under the pressure of an FCC investigation into millions of dollars funneled into a bank account in the Grand Caymans. Bobbie and Suzanne meet a trio of college guys – pre-law preppy Corey (MELROSE PLACE's Rob Estes), jock Lance (Beau Dremann, THE HEAVENLY KID), and biology grad Martin (Eric Larson, DEMON WIND) – and invite them along to the yacht along with a stray cat Suzanne finds that has a collar from a genetics lab. Before Walter can toss the guys off, Albert informs him that the FCC are closing in, necessitating that they get to the Grand Caymans and empty the bank account before business resumes on Monday. The yacht's captain Rachel (Toni Hudson, LEATHERFACE: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE III), from whose father Walter swindled the boat, refuses to take off without a crew, so Bobbie proposes they guys stay on to help. Tensions are stirred among the shipmates with Walter jealous of the younger men, Bobbie playing hard to get, and Rachel's downright contempt for him but it is not drunken Albert that knocked the boat off course before apparently falling overboard but the kitty which has a penchant for shedding its tabby shell and feasting on human flesh, its bites or scratches infecting its victims who die splattery deaths. With all of the food supplies either depleted or contaminated by the cat, the surviving members of the crew start turning against each other as the ship drifts into a major storm system.

Not quite a worthy follow-up to director Greydon Clark's alien terror movies WITHOUT WARNING or THE RETURN, UNINVITED is more laughable than entertaining with its mutant cat, both because of the concept of a mutant kitty crawling in and out of a tabby cat shell, and due to its effects in which the cat always looks like a hand puppet – designed by the usually more proficient Makeup Effects Labs (CHILDREN OF THE CORN) – that Nicholas Von Sternberg's camera must do its best to make more threatening than it can ever be. Gulager entertains as a buck-toothed drunkard and Kennedy bellows his way through the film, but the usually wooden Cord is quite good here as the boastful stock trader who turns petulant when the spotlight is not on him. The young cast is more variable, but some of Shattuck's dodgier moments are more the fault of the script which makes her seem flat out idiotic rather than cracking up from hunger. There are moments, particularly during the climax, in which even Clark seems to stop taking the concept seriously before the requisite surprise ending. Austin Stoker (ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13) has a small role during the finale.

Released direct to VHS by New Star Video and by then-rights owner Liberation Entertainment on a double bill DVD with John 'Bud' Cardos' MUTANT, UNINVITED comes to 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 Blu-ray from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative. The image improves greatly over the standard definition transfer, looking crisper with richer colors where it once looked rather bland and flat due to the original photography. The prosthetic effects and gore never looked convincing on video and fare no better here, although the enhanced resolution does allow more assessment of the puppet cat and its tabby shell (which almost looks like an ALF doll), and the DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 mono track is clean and clear even if the mix is not that adventurous and the synth scoring of Dan Slider (AMERICA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEOS) sounds thin at times. Optional English SDH subtitles are included.

Even if the main feature itself is not that good, the inclusion of the international cut is simply fascinating. Although the 92:55 is just a minute and some changes longer than the American cut's 91:51 timing, there are major differences including extended and alternate footage, and an alternate ending. It seems as if this might have been the original cut of the film, opening with different music over the credits which appear on the action rather than on black, includes an introductory scene around seven minutes into the film for the three college guys in which Corey and Lance find a reason to invite Martin along when he wins a hundred bucks from a lottery ticket Corey uses to pay his bar tab. The American cut introduces them already in Fort Lauderdale at the seventeen minute mark, with an added scene in which the cat kills some guys who steal a truck and flip it padding the first act. The pacing of the first act in the international version is swifter than that of the American one, and scenes in the American version that once seemed to zip along now feel curtailed in comparison. The international version's opening only shows three lab technicians killed by the mutant cat while the American one includes a cameo by Clark as a doctor. This may have been shot originally and cut from the international version, or the alternate ending of the international cut may have had to be replaced because Clark cameoed in a different role there. The international version also includes nudity during the sex scenes between Estes and Shattuck (a tamer angle was used in the American version). Neither version is totally satisfying but the international cut seems like the intended version. Although this version has also been scanned in high definition, the source has some wear and does not look quite as vibrant, and there are moments here and there where Slider's score muffles dialogue. English SDH subtitles are also included for this version.