Cat in the Cage

From his alleged 1963 comedy House of Sand to his latest film, the ultra-low budget horror 1996 Werewolf, the relentlessly self-promoting Iranian auteur Tony Zarindast has garnered an unenviable reputation of being the Ed Wood of our time. Like Wood, Zarindast directs, writes, produces and often stars in his own films. Also like Wood, none of Zarindast's films show even the slightest iota of cinematic competence.

Cat In The Cage is the turgid story of the dysfunctional Khan family. Bruce Khan gets out of the squirrel factory just in time to greet daddy Rashid and his new wife Susan, returning to the family manse after an around-the-world jaunt. The rest of the story is so amazingly derivative of every B-movie melodrama made before 1950 that the only surprising thing is the film wasn't sued out of existence moments after it hit the theaters.