Advantages: Nice clear print of a fulci classic Disadvantages: Silly plot involving communication with the dead
...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 ... ...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 idyll; but nutty professor Robert Miles (nothing to do with music) played by Patrick Magee has started trying to communicate with the recent dead, much to the distress of his little black cat. But this is no petty feline, it seems that this cat is playing an active part in the string ...
sghawken 20.02.2008
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Advantages: Entertaining, easy to watch Disadvantages: Hard to take the plot too seriously
...film? I needn't have worried. Black Cat is not without sex and nudity, but it is a very small part of the film and the 'horror' elements are tame compared to, for example, some of the Korean horror films I have seen. Based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, the film is about killer cats. As such, it almost goes without saying that the plot is a bit daft. Perhaps because I love cats so much myself, I couldn't bring myself to believe what I was seeing ... ...is quite a lot of black humour in the film and this made it very easy to watch. Plus the Englishness of the setting is stressed throughout - I don't know where it was filmed, but it really is picture-perfect, particularly the house in which the Professor lives. Patrick Magee plays the Professor and I thought hammed the role up quite a bit. There were lots of looks of wide-eyed terror that told of the horrors yet to come. This was hardly the role ...
sunmeilan 13.04.2008
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