A Cat in the Brain

A Cat in the Brain (1990)

Un gatto nel cervello

Hitchcock invented the thriller… Fulci perfected it!

The master of Italian horror, Lucio Fulci, stars as... Lucio Fulci, a filmmaker with a reputation for gruesome horror films. His body of work has started to plague his mental state, and he is haunted by the grotesque set-pieces his mind has conjured up during his career. His psychiatrist, Egon Schwarz, uses a hypnotised Fulci as an avatar to carry out his own disturbed fantasies, in hopes of ruining the master’s reputation once and for all.

Date of release
1990-08-08
TMDB
5.7 / 10 (161)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Horror, Comedy
Director
Lucio Fulci

Casting

Interesting facts

Cat in the Brain is a 1990 Italian horror film written and directed by Lucio Fulci. Fulci stars as a fictionalized version of himself, a tortured horror filmmaker who is driven by the violent visions that he experiences both behind the camera and off the set. Feeling like he's losing his grip on reality and disturbed by murderous fantasies, Fulci consults a psychotherapist, who is secretly a serial killer and using hypnosis, exploiting the director's vulnerabilities to his own murderous ends.

Production

Cat in the Brain was filmed on location at the Petrini Marina at the "Piazza Vecchia" restaurant and on a yacht. Interiors were shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome.

The film uses footage from several of Fulci's recent productions, including Touch of Death, Sodoma's Ghost as well the work of other directors such as Andrea Bianchi's Massacre, Leandro Lucchetti's Bloody Psycho, Umberto Lenzi's The Hell's Gate, Giovanni Simonelli's Hansel & Gretel, Mario Bianchi's The Murder Secret, and Enzo Millioni's Luna di sangue.

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