“Cats,” one of the most successful musicals of all time, will hit the big screen Dec. 20 as a live-action movie. The first trailer has dropped and the internet has opinions — from “unsettling” to “nightmarish.”

Let’s take a look, shall we?

CNN has this to say: “There’s a good chance your coworkers are all watching the ‘Cats’ trailer, and there’s a very good chance they’re all horrified by it.”

OK, then.

You don’t know fear until you’ve seen the #CatsTrailer

— mr iced tea returns (@EmmettHanly) July 18, 2019

I just watched the #CatsTrailer ... a terrible musical now stuffed with a bunch of nightmare fuel..So many furry cat boobs..I will never unsee Jason Derulo as a mutant catman pic.twitter.com/HhurGwEzhw

— Kate Robinson (@_thatmoviechick) July 19, 2019

Based on Andrew Lloyd Webbers’ musical (based on T.S. Eliot’s whimsical poems), the movie’s star-studded cast includes real-life cat lover Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, Rebel Wilson, Idris Elba, Jason Derulo, Dame Judi Dench and Ian McKellen. All decked out in slinky cat suits — or what the producers call “digital fur technology.”

It’s an image you can’t unsee.

Reminds me of a wacked out nightmare I had while plugged into a week-long Fentanyl epidural. In fact, #CatsTrailer might be worse. pic.twitter.com/AWjZklqdSn

— Vicki Pang (@vickicpang) July 19, 2019

I was joking when I said I’d have nightmares. Woken up at 3am in a cold sweat thinking about Dame Judi Dench’s cat face with Jellical Cats stuck in my head. #CatsTrailer pic.twitter.com/KMa65bUg7l

— Hailey ? (@TruthAndAdare) July 19, 2019

They’re the Jellicle Cats preparing for the Jellicle Ball, a yearly event at which Old Deuteronomy (Dench), the tribe’s leader picks the most deserving cat to ascend to a sort of cat heaven to be reborn and return for a new life.

This tribe of Jellicles prowls and leaps about on super-sized furniture and other settings to make them look realistically cat-sized.

why do they look like that#cats #CatsTrailer pic.twitter.com/ccnO0CIa9q

— Shiny (@ScalieBait) July 18, 2019

Not surprisingly, Swift was all about donning the cat suit:

I am a cat now and somehow that was everything #CatsMovie pic.twitter.com/80gZHpvzMW

— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) July 18, 2019

But how did everyone else feel about it?

Nobody told me Garfield was a horror movie #CatsTrailer pic.twitter.com/kw1fRvtibO

— Kenza? (@mskenzabntm) July 19, 2019

Or about some of the other characters?

This is why Idris Elba couldn't be the new James Bond.#CatsTrailer pic.twitter.com/k9ZWya0sti

— Filthy Hippie in a Loincloth (@droctopu5) July 18, 2019

Director is Tom Hooper, best known for his work on “The King’s Speech” and “Les Misérables.” As Grizabella, Hudson sings the blockbuster hit song ”Memory” — but you might have to close your eyes to enjoy it.

I...I mean, I'm so excited to hear Jennifer Hudson sing Memory, but the animation is so terrifying??? pic.twitter.com/bfjGRvfQYr

— Megan Hash (@and_meggy) July 18, 2019

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