Now, don’t let Felidae’s cover fool you, this is absolutely no film for kids. So when opening the Animated Horror section here on Horror Ghouls, we thought it would be fun to start with a feature we expect few of you have heard of before: the German neo-noir cat thriller Felidae!

While some animated thrillers have become more and more known over the years (especially some anime classics like for example Perfect Blue) there are others that have been kept more obscured. Horror/thriller movies come in all forms, and animation is absolutely no exception.

Francis tries to put all the pieces together in order to solve the mystery and find the culprit, while also suffering from terrifying nightmares. As he delves further into the mystery, Francis comes upon more mutilated cat corpses, a cat suicide club, a blind feline, and old VHS tapes featuring brutal experimentation performed on cats by crazy scientists. Bluebeard is convinced that “can-openers” (cat slang for “humans”) are behind these murders, but Francis disagrees and takes it upon himself to investigate this further. He meets a local cat named Bluebeard, who shows Francis one of the recent victims. An animated movie based on Felidae, the script of which had been co-written by Pirinçci, was produced in Germany in 1994, and was also dubbed in English.Francis, a tomcat, moves to a new neighborhood with his owner, and quickly gets involved in a series of cat murders that’s been going on for some time. The novel has been translated into 17 languages and became an international bestseller.ĭue to the success of the novel, Pirinçci expanded his concept of 'cat crime fiction' and published several sequels to Felidae, out of which Felidae II and Felidae V (Salve Roma!) have been translated into English.

His next literary work, published in 1989, was the novel Felidae, a work of crime fiction with cats as the main protagonists. He began to write fiction at a young age, and published his first novel Tränen sind immer das Ende ('tears are always the end') in 1980, at the age of 21. Pirinçci was born on 20 October 1959 in Istanbul, Turkey, but emigrated to Germany together with his parents in 1969. Akif Pirinçci (Turkish pronunciation: born 20 October 1959) is a Turkish-born German writer who is best known internationally for his novel Felidae.

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