I think I may need to rethink what I originally thought was Fulci's most violent film... because this is absolutely demented.
Writer-director Lucio Fulci - famed "Godfather of Gore" - stars as a fictionalized version of himself, haunted by the gory scenes he regularly shoots. Feeling like he's losing grip on reality and disturbed by depraved hallucinations, Fulci consults a psychotherapist - a serial killer who begins exploiting the director's vulnerabilities to his own murderous ends...
It's as wild as it sounds and is gleefully gruesome, with the hallucinations serving as a fine excuse to splatter blood, melt faces, and damage eyeballs in typical Fulci style. There's also a meta edge to proceedings that fans of the director will enjoy, as we see him on the set of one of his films orchestrating the carnage from behind the camera.
Overall, A Cat in the Brain is darkly funny and utterly mad in execution in all the best ways. It's pretty much non-stop sex and gore, unbelievably perverse and relentless, bodies at the mercy of the director's unhinged imagination, and concludes in fitting fashion.
7/10.
Writer-director Lucio Fulci - famed "Godfather of Gore" - stars as a fictionalized version of himself, haunted by the gory scenes he regularly shoots. Feeling like he's losing grip on reality and disturbed by depraved hallucinations, Fulci consults a psychotherapist - a serial killer who begins exploiting the director's vulnerabilities to his own murderous ends...
It's as wild as it sounds and is gleefully gruesome, with the hallucinations serving as a fine excuse to splatter blood, melt faces, and damage eyeballs in typical Fulci style. There's also a meta edge to proceedings that fans of the director will enjoy, as we see him on the set of one of his films orchestrating the carnage from behind the camera.
Overall, A Cat in the Brain is darkly funny and utterly mad in execution in all the best ways. It's pretty much non-stop sex and gore, unbelievably perverse and relentless, bodies at the mercy of the director's unhinged imagination, and concludes in fitting fashion.
7/10.