Horror Extreme Movie Catalog

This is one of the worst films I have ever seen, and I've seen most of Fulci's other works (which range from mediocre to absolute s***). I have never understood the cult of Fulci, as he has made some of the worst films ever made. This film is a prime example. Filled with bad acting, bad dubbing, cheesy gore, a stupid story, continuity flubs, and just overall bad craftmanship, it was a chore to sit through this one. It isn't surprising that many American horror filmmakers cite Fulci as an influence, as their work is reminiscent of his: sloppy, badly written, badly directed, and just, well, BAD. In some of Fulci's earlier films (like The Beyond, House by the Cemetary and City of the Living Dead), there's a really visceral gore scene, a decent camera move, and/or a really strange, surreal ending. I do believe the endings of both The Beyond and House by the Cemetary are surreal and strange purposely, but in Cat in the Brain, there's none of that. Fulci's performance isn't that bad (he always had a cameo in his films, and was always good), but overall this film is his worst, and that's saying something. Some will swear he's a genius; I'm not one of them.

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.