A CAT IN THE BRAIN

A horror film director loses the boundaries between fiction and reality and decides to rely on the care of a psychiatrist; the latter is a criminal madman who commits atrocious murders convincing his poor patient that he is the real killer. Fortunately, a policeman, friend of the director, manages to understand the situation and stop the mad doctor. A strange and bizarre work by the inventive Fulci in which the master "sews" together snippets of some of his numerous horror films creating a new movie out of nothing. The operation, partly wanted by the director himself and partly made necessary by the low budget available, is not entirely successful: the film turns out to be rather disjointed and at times improvised, mainly thanks to a thin and incoherent screenplay and to actors who leave much to be desired (if Fulci, in the role of himself, can be forgiven because he is not a professional actor, David Thompson, as the psychiatrist, has no excuses for his poor performance). "To watch" especially some excellent splatter sequences and to praise the "art of making do" demonstrated, once again, by the great Fulci.