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Another commented: “Looking at the Cats trailer, I prefer the Cats on stage to the movie. In the movie, actors look weird and creepy and CGI doesn’t do any justice to them.”

Viewers compared the trailer to that of horror sequel It: Chapter Two, which was released hours before, and questioned which was scarier.

One tweeted: “The trailers for It 2 and Cats dropped today and I’m not sure which one is more terrifying.” Another user said: “I can’t believe the Cats trailer is scarier than the It trailer.”

The critical response was also mixed, with Rolling Stone magazine calling the clip “even more terrifying than anticipated”.

However Swift, a cat lover, who plays Bombalurina in the film directed by Tom Hooper described the trailer as “everything”. She tweeted: “I am a cat now and somehow that was everything.”

The film is set to be released in UK cinemas on December 20.