1990 · meta · gore · horror
A Cat in the Brain
Directed by Lucio Fulci1h 33m1990
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.
Our read: A Cat in the Brain (1990) reads as a sombre, kinetic, surreal meta · gore · horror entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured meta / gore, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
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- intense
- inventive
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