A Cat in the Brain (1990)
- Original title
- Un gatto nel cervello
- Directed by
- Lucio Fulci
- Genre
- horror film, slasher film
- Country
- Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 27m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 5.7 of 10 from 158 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A horror movie director is tormented by violent fantasies from making his films. He sees a therapist who turns out to be a serial killer using hypnosis to control him.
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What happens
Cat in the Brain (Italian: Un gatto nel cervello (I volti del terrore), lit. 'A Cat in the Brain (The Faces of Terror)') 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. A Cat in the Brain has been called the horror film equivalent of Federico Fellini's 8½, using cynical, Grand Guignol humour. Juxtaposing gory horror clips from several of his own past horror films which he had worked on, Fulci shot a wrap-around segment featuring his own plot and used Vincenzo Tomassi's film editing to create the storyline – a personal insight into the effects of horror filmmaking on the psyche. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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