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Il Gatto Nero
The Black Cat
Italy 1981
produced by Giulio Sbarigia for Italian International Film, Selenia Cinematografica
directed by Lucio Fulci
starring David Warbeck, Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, Dagmar Lassander, Al Cliver, Bruno Corazzari, Daniela Doria
story by Biagio Proietti, screenplay by Biagio Proietti, Lucio Fulci, loosely based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, music by Pino Donaggio, special effects by Paolo Ricci, cinematography by Sergio Salvati
Edgar Allan Poe's Black Cat
review by Mike Haberfelner
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As various murders happen in a small Englich village & the only
connection between them might be the presence of a black cat at the
scene of the crime, local cop (al Cliver) calls in Scotland Yard for
help. Once Yard inspector Gorley (David Warbeck) arrives in town, he has
to face a series of bizarre characters - including American photographer
Jill (Mimsy Farmer) & eccentric medium professor Miles (Patrick
Magee), the actual owner of the cat - while the cat keeps up the
killing. However, Jill & professor Miles soon come to the conclusion
that the cat has to be behind it all, but deciding this is too fantastic
a tale to tell the police, Miles takes the matter of killing the animal
into his own hand, hanging the cat on a tree by her neck. The cat
however - inexplicably - cheats death, attacks inspector Gorley &
manages to have him run over by a car. Jill meanwhile comes to her own
conclusions & finds out that professor Miles is actually the
mastermind behind all the killings, him - because of being a medium -
being able to mind-control the cat - this by the way makes little sense
considering the movie's story thus far. She confronts the professor with
this, which he admits but claims that not he is controlling the cat but
the cat is controlling him - which also makes little sense. Then
he walls Jill up. Meanwhile inspector Gorley, who was miraculously only
slightly injured in his accident, has put together the pieces of
the puzzle as well, confronts the professor & has his house searched
- of course nothing is found ... until Gorley hears the meow of the cat
from behind a wall. Obviously, when having walled up Jill, the professor
accidently walled up the cat with her ... Though this movie
does have some gruesome murders & does try to establish a creepy
atmosphere, all this efforts are seriously hampered by a very muddled
& stupid (even for an Italian horror-quickie) screenplay, that not
only does make little sense but also tries to sell a cat as a killer to
the audience that is just too darn cute to induce anything remotely
associated with fear. However, nobody in the filmcrew seemed to notice
that discrepancy, thus no attempt is made to either make the animal in
the least frightening or turn the movie as such into an ironic and/or
macabre chiller.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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