Cat in the Brain

You Can Throw Away That Cruddy VHS You Paid $400,000 For!
Those saints at Grindhouse have finally given us Cat In The Brain, and being the cool guys they are, have given the DVD excellent treatment. There are a bunch of interviews(two with Fulci himself), Fulci's appearance at Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors, trailers, galleries and the whole shebang. A very nice package with a groovy hologram cover.
Hows about the movie? It won't quite tickle you like Fulci's classics, but it's quite good. As I'm sure you know(about 100 times over)Fulci is playing himself in this film. He's become quite disturbed and disillusioned by his constant shooting of violent films, and the lines between his work and his life start to blur(some of these scenes are really well done). He goes to a wacko psychoanalyst(but aren't they all?) for help, but the Doc takes advantage of Fulci's predicament to go on a murder spree for some odd reason(his wife being a hoochie momma may have something to do with it, or maybe he's just having a slow day). For the Doc,...

Mee-awful!
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.

Not classic Fulci, but better than most of late day flicks
CAT IN THE BRAIN AKA NIGHTMARE CONCERT

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