Black Cat DVD

Advantages: A Great Nights Horror Viewing
Disadvantages: One of those films you can only watch the once.

The Black Cat is yet another great Lucio Fulci movie, filmed in both England and Italy it centres around, suprisingly enough a black cat. The film is a reworking of an Edgar Allen Poe story, moved forward to 1980 Middle England. The film is memorable to me for the opening five minutes, a man climbs into his Austin Maxi and heads of down the road, shortly after driving off he realises he is not alone, a homicidal black cat is sitting in the back of ...
...exit from the movie. The black cat then heads off over walls and the roof's of several houses to some rather jolly music. The Cat belongs to a rather unpleasant chap who records the sounds of the dead with a special device attatched to an ordinary microphone which he leaves at the base of a graves headstone. He and the cat do not get on, and the cat expresses this by attacking him several times during the movie. Horror movie fans will be pleased ... Read review

Advantages: The Best Account of the FInal Available on DVD
Disadvantages: The sound and picture aren't great

...From a Die hard Sunderland fan undoubtedly the best day in Sunderland Association Football Club History, when they took on Leeds in the 1973 Fa Cup Final. After defeating Luton Town 2 - 0 in the quarter final and Arsenal 2 - 1 in the Semis, Sunderland's Cup Final Slot was secured. Leeds on the other hand defeated Derby County 1 - 0 in the Quarter Finals and beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 - 1 in the semis. On the 5th May 1973 the teams took the pitch in a hard fought encounter. Then in the 31st Minute up popped the late, great Ian Portefield to bag, what would turn out to be the winning goal in the Fa Cup Final, to bag it for the Black Cats. This DVD contains an account of this close caught epic thriller that was the 1973 FA Cup FInal.... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: Entertaining, easy to watch
Disadvantages: Hard to take the plot too seriously

...abroad, I am a bit of a sucker for anything that involves English village life and as this film is set in an English village, it was the obvious choice for my introduction to the world of Lucio Fulci. And, of course, a fellow reviewer had already recommended it - thanks, Spencer. Prior to the film starting, there were a number of trailers for other films of a similar genre and presumably distributed by the same company that distributes this one (Shameless). I have to admit, I started getting worried. I enjoy watching horror films, but some of the clips I was watching were a bit out of my comfort zone, involving what I will term as sexual horror, for want of a better word (for example, stabbing in the genital area). If this was a taster of things to come, would I even be able to watch the film? I needn't have worried. Black Cat is not without... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Nice clear print of a fulci classic
Disadvantages: Silly plot involving communication with the dead

...New horror/exploitation company Shameless' 6th DVD release is Lucio Fulci's 1981 movie The Black Cat, a slightly advanced variation of Edgar Allen Poe's novel of the same name starring horror legends Patrick Magee and David Warbeck. Made just after Fulci's four most successful movies (The Beyond, Zombie Flesh Eaters AKA Zombi, City Of The Living Dead, and House By The Cemetery) this was the last clearly legible movie of the talented directors history. Although I'm not stating the movie is 100% fluid, with some fairly odd and disjointed story arcs, it stays faithful to the concepts that made Lucio Fulci a legend in his native Italy and France. Set in England (and clearly so without permission) The Black Cat follows events in a small village just off the River Thames. For many moons things have been going peacefully in this country... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful