Movies like Nine Lives

“Nine Lives (2016) is a 2010s Chinese-influenced dark-comedy that reframes domestic metamorphosis as a body-horror conceit. It stages a stuffy businessman trapped inside his family’s cat while employing chiaroscuro framing, practical lighting, and brisk editing to emphasize corporeal dissonance. The film therefore uses absurd physical inversion to interrogate parental responsibility and identity with studio-grade polish rather than graphic spectacle.”