Stephen King’s Cat’s Eye is one of the rare horror anthologies in which every segment is a winner, and the stories are all tied together with the journey of a peppy street cat. 

A stray cat has psychic visions of a little girl (Drew Barrymore) in peril and travels down the East Coast to rescue her. Along the way, he gets plucked off the streets of New York City by a mysterious clinic called Quitter’s Inc. that uses cruel and unusual methods to rid patients of their smoking habit. The cat later migrates to Atlantic City where he’s adopted by a crime boss who makes a bet with his wife’s lover to circumnavigate the hazardous ledge around his penthouse. The cat then stows away on a train to the little girl’s house in Wilmington, NC, where a tiny troll hides behind a mousehole in her bedroom wall and creeps out at night on a mission to steal her lifeforce. 

Cat’s Eye is the last of director Lewis Teague’s horror films, preceded by Chicago-set Alligator (1980) and underrated Cujo (1983). Cujo makes a cameo appearance in Cat’s Eye, and the film is loaded with other fun references to previous Stephen King hits. The film’s original score is by Alan Silvestri, who worked with Robert Zemeckis on all of his films since Romancing the Stone (1984), and his score for Cat’s Eye bears a fantastic resemblance to the epic orchestrations in the Back to the Future trilogy.