Regular Price $24.99

Starring: Shillett Angel,  Paola Cozzo,  Sacha Darwin,  Ria De Simone,  Marco Di Stefano, 
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Rated: R (Restricted)
Release Date: 1990
Studio: Image Entertainment
Format: Color,  DVD-Video,  Widescreen,  NTSC, 

Editorial Reviews and DVD Information about A Cat in the Brain

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.

Customer Reviews for A Cat in the Brain

Nightmare Concert.
Cat In The Brain is one of Lucio Fulci's later films which he made before he passed away, it seems like the quality of his films during this period of time just weren't as good as they were before his days of making classic gore masterpieces like The Beyond or City Of The Living Dead were gone and forgotten, this film however was decent as far as the gore goes there is plenty of that any gorehound would probably wet their pants once they see this (including myself ;-)). The movie is about a horror filmmaker played by Lucio Fulci himself who has become so desensitized by all the blood, gore and carnage in his films that he starts seeing things even when hes trying to eat a meal he quickly loses his appetite. He decides to go to a psychiatrist in-order to solve this problem but unfortunately the psychiatrist turns out to be a homicidal maniac that likes going on a killing spree which includes a scene where a kid gets his head chopped clean off by a chainsaw which I must admit was pretty funny and cool!, there is some more gory stuff including limbs being hacked off using several types of weapons and a woman turned into mince meat literally which was sick!! and theres some Nazis. Some of the clips were also used from Lucio's other films older stuff which I didn't recognize, the movie wasn't bad and some parts were really enjoyable but you have to realise that the film doesn't have a purpose other than to shock the viewer by adding tons of gore, blood and nudity like an exploitation flick not to mention the storyline which was very weak its supposed to be an autobiographical tale but it doesn't really work and there was some bad editing which is typical of a Lucio Fulci flick however if your a Lucio Fulci fan then you wouldn't mind enjoy.A Cat in the Brain

Help...............
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?A Cat in the Brain

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.

A Cat in the Brain

GOOD OLD FULCI
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.A Cat in the Brain

Stab Him Again, Tony
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.A Cat in the Brain