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The Black Cat (Lucio Fulci)

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From the liner notes

The creepy supernatural shocker from The director of City of the Living Dead and The Beyond.

The townspeople of a small English village begin to die in a series of horrible "accidents," and a Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate. But when suspicion falls on a mysterious local medium who records conversations with the dead, the grisly deaths take on a sinister twist. Is a deranged murderer on the loose, or is an even more shocking evil silently stalking in the night?

Patrick Magee (A Clockwork Orange), David Warbeck (The Beyond), Mimsy Farmer (Autopsy) and Al Cliver (Zombie) star in this atmospheric horror thriller directed by Lucio Fulci, now completely restored from original negative materials and presented in widescreen for the first time ever!

Review

I tell ya, those tiny English villages are no joke! It seems that they’re always filled with excessive amounts of fog, people who talk funny and murderous cats. After seeing this film, I plan to write a strongly worded letter to my local congressman suggesting they alert the public… maybe a travel advisory or something of the like? This is a real threat, why am I the only one who notices these things? But anyway, I digress...

The Black Cat, which is very loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe’s short story of the same name, takes place in one of these spooky ass villages. For some reason, folks have been expiring in a series of grotesque accidents, and it seems that the local clairvoyant/town pariah and his roof-climbing ass cat (it’s black) have something to do with it. Actually, the old bastard has been commanding the cat (WITH HIS MIND) to off folks who have wronged him. In my opinion, that’s all well and good. I mean, sometimes people get out of line and you have to check them. But if said cat becomes too evil to control, all hell is guaranteed to break loose.

Since it’s directed by Lucio Fulci, you would assume that this film is a goregasam waiting to happen. Sadly, no, but while there are very few instances of blood and goo, this atmospheric horror film is still a treat, and genuinely creepy! Most interesting is the relationship between the deranged psychic (Patrick Magee) and the psycho beast cat. He both needs the animal, and despises it, and the feeling is mutual. The two taunt and attack each other throughout the film, and at one point he even goes so far as to hang the sum’ bitch. Of course the cat doesn’t die, chill out you PETA loving bastards, he’s far too powerful for that. Duh.

I know what you’re thinking though…. “Will there be boobies?” The answer is yes, my friend, always yes. Topless ladies foaming at the mouth, for the win! Also, exactly two people are set on fire in this film, which also happens to be the minimum for a solid film. YOU BUY!

-- Flavius Ferrari