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Mee-awful!
GOOD OLD FULCI
Stab Him Again, Tony
Fulci on Fulci

A Cat in the Brain
Starring: Shillett Angel , Paola Cozzo , Sacha Darwin , Ria De Simone , and Marco Di Stefano
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B00005M209
Release Date: 2002-07-30

Description

Cult horror director Lucio Fulci (The Beyond, Zombie) turns the camera on himself in this warped splatter twist on Fellini's "8 1/2." While working on his latest gore opus, Fulci is tormented by ghastly visions from his movies (including kitties gorging themselves on his brain!). He turns to a psychiatrist for help, but unfortunately the "good" doctor has other plans--namely to embark on a bloody killing spree with the hapless director left as the scapegoat. Banned in the U.K. and boasting one of the highest body counts in Euro horror history, this blood-soaked and darkly humorous look at one man's creative nightmare has been lovingly remastered to its original, full-length, delirious form.

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Help......................2007-06-27

Does anyone know why this movie is not avalaible.This copy shown for the 2 years i checked is never avaliable.How long was is it out when it was on dvd.does it plan to be re-issued?

Mee-awful!.......2007-03-31

Cheesy music, poor dubbing, glaring continuity errors, dodgy acting (not the least from Fulci himself) and buckets of often less-than-convincing gore. Even the cat looks ridiculously fake!

What was Fulci thinking of? If intended as a (cat got yer-)tongue-in-cheek satirical comment, it should have been sharper and wittier. If intended as grand guignol horror, it should have been darker and more menacing.

Just about saved from being a lone-star movie by the interest value of seeing Fulci himself and the variety of butchery just may melt the hardened gore-fan's butter.

On the whole very disappointing though.

GOOD OLD FULCI .......2006-07-25

I can see why "Cat in the Brain" is so expensive at Amazon - it was released about 17 years ago and still hasn't got a decent DVD re-release by Anchor Bay or whoever. And that's a mystery to me because it's one of the greatest Lucio Fulci films. Certainly it's not like his classic works of the late 70s and early 80s, nothing like "The Beyond", "The New-York Ripper" or "House by the Cemetery". But it still delivers the usual Fulci goods. The director plays himself - a horror movie-director who's being stalked by some lunatic and meanwhile suffers from brutal and bizarre hallucinations.
Although the film has rather an ambiguous plot and multiple meanings, it still remains an exploitation feature like many others of Lucio Fulci. And you may search those meanings recalling Oscar Wilde's quote about life imitating art, but still... "Cat in the Brain" is interesting primarily because of its cheesy content.
I remember watching this film in the beginning of the 90s on VHS and I was pretty amazed about how much it was unlike most of the usual American slashers and chillers. "Cat in the Brain" started with a guy chainsawing a naked woman lying on the table, then hashing her parts in a meat-grinder and finally feeding the mincemeat to the cats. I couldn't recall any other movie that was as much explicit and graphic. And all this stuff were made with a master shot, all the details of the woman's anatomy and chainsawing quite visible.
So if you enjoy this kind of violent cinema, you'll definately like this one - and it's full of likes of the above-mentioned scene, stabbing, gore, Nazi-uniform orgies etc. What else can attract exploitation films' lovers? And if you like previous Fulci's works, I'm sure you'll like "Cat on the Brain" too. You can still see Maestro's hand here, it's just that Lucio achieved some new level with this film. A new level of brutality maybe or a new level of sense - it's for you to decide.
And I still hope we'll see a nice DVD release of this outstanding movie.

Stab Him Again, Tony.......2001-08-25

As one who often paid good coin to see Fulci movies during their brief theatrical runs, I can appreciate the guilty pleasure of kicking back to hoot at badly-dubbed sadism and cheesy gore. But I draw the line at clods who insist that Lucio Fulci was some kind of tortured, misunderstood artist. Better you should write theses on the mise-en-scene of AIRPORT 1975, or maybe the underlying theme of ROLLER BOOGIE. There's no doubt Fulci was intending to shock his audience with mean-spirited viciousness; however, his ham-handed obviousness and ineptitude are what make his films "classics". I haven't seen BEATRICE CENCI or that DUCKLING one, so maybe there was some real talent there once. But from ZOMBIE onward, Fulci delivered more unintentional comedy than on-purpose terror. CAT IN THE BRAIN is probably his worst ever, a hopeless porridge of old gore-fx footage spliced into new scenes in an excruciating attempt at a psychological thriller. A horror-film director slowly losing his ability to distinguish reality from fantasy IS a scenario ripe with possibilities: wait till you see how badly this simple-yet-solid premise is botched. Or better yet, take my word for it and pass altogether. I hold no personal animus against the late Fulci, but it irritates me no end that this guy is slowly gaining a reputation as some kind of great Italian moviemaker - mostly from lazy gorehounds who can't be bothered to check out De Sica, Rossellini, Visconti or legit horror masters like Bava and Freda. Maybe CAT IN THE BRAIN isn't representative of Fulci's best -he was in failing health at the time- but I've seen his other "triumphs" and his only genius was in aiming low - and missing.

Fulci on Fulci.......2001-06-24

I'll begin this review by warning everybody that it will only focus on the content of the film, not the DVD itself (which is still 2 months from release at the time of this review). This being an Image Entertainment release though, I feel safe in my assumption that the sound and video quality will be at least acceptable.

This is in a way Fulci's autobiography. Fulci on Fulci if you will. A look (sort of) into the mind of one of the Italian Cinema's most controversial and prolific filmmakers, at least that was the idea. This movie can only be taken on one level, gore munching fun. Unfortunately all of the potential of a poignant look into the mind of the maestro is absolutely wasted, and what's left is a somewhat 2 dimensional story. A director of violent movies (Lucio Fulci) tries to cure himself of all the mental anguish having created such pieces of horror celluloid bestows upon him. In his hunt for absolution, he finds himself in the office of one of the most ludicrously acted doctors this side of Brian Yuzna's The Dentist, who takes it upon himself to live out every murderous fantasy he's ever had and pin the wrap on Fulci.

This idea in itself would have still made for an interesting movie, if not an incredibly deep one, but as anybody interested in this movie probably already knows, only around of half of the movie is actually a new film. Most of Cat in the Brain (or Nightmare Concert as it is also commonly known) plays as sort of a Fulci's greatest hits, being made up of gory highlights from many of his lesser known latter films (and a few movies that he didn't actually direct). It's not unlike, if Lucio's career had been a television series, this would be his end of the 5th season "flash back episode".

Even though many have taken issue with the somewhat plaguristic leanings of this movie, the idea itself still kind of works. The problem is the execution is such that the viewer's head is left absolutely spinning. The film cuts from story, to random gore, to story and back again, allowing the film to get to the point where even the most rabid of gore hounds will be tapping his foot and wondering "When is the blood gonna stop, and the film gonna start again?"

Interestingly enough, through all of this mayhem, Fulci proves to not be all that bad of an actor (his 8,000,000 Hitchokian cameos more than likely got him ready for the role), but unfortunately for the film, he is the only one who appears very fit for the screen.

This film will more than likely only be truly enjoyed by Fulci (or eurohorror) enthusiasts, and while others might enjoy it, they probably won't be able to sit through repeated viewings. But if you are an admirer of the late maestro's work, then there is no reason to not own this "ode to himself". And besides, where else but in a movie made by Fulci, about Fulci would we see multiple Italian beauties swooning "Look, it's the director Lucio Fulci, maybe I can be in his next movie." From the sound of it, she probably has never seen what most often happens to girls in Fulci's movies.

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