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 his car. Instead of pulling over and letting the cat out, he engages in a fight with the cat that brings around his rather quick 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 at the cast of regular horror nasties David Warbeck, Mimsy Farmer and good old Al Cliver. I know many of you are thinking who, but back in the days of video nasties these actors were the staple diet.
The film has some great gory endings, young lovers deprived of oxygen and submitted to extreme heat, a lady subjected to extreme heat when she burns to death, and the odd impailment.
I really enjoyed this movie, however its good once. When you go back to watch it again, it seems long, tired and frankly a bit dull.
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