Gatto nel cervello, Un (1990)

Note des utilisateurs:

5.3/10   

Réalisateur:

Lucio Fulci

Writers:

John Fitzsimmons (writer)
Lucio Fulci (writer)

Release Date:

8 août 1990 (Italy)

Genre:

Horror

Plot:

A horror film director is stalked by a mad psychiatrist/serial killer bent on killing people to model the killings after the director's gory death scenes from his movies.

Plot Keywords:

Extreme Violence | Child Murder | Chainsaw | Extreme Gore | Decapitated Child

Avis des utilisateurs:

Fulci's Last Great Film

Ensemble

Lucio Fulci	...	Dr. Lucio Fulci
David L. Thompson	...	Professor Egon Schwarz
Jeoffrey Kennedy	...	Officer Gabrielli
Malisa Longo	...	Katya Schwarz
Ria De Simone	...	Sopran ('When Alice Broke the Mirror') (archive footage)
Brett Halsey	...	Human Monster ('When Alice Broke the Mirror') (archive footage)
Sacha Darwin	...	Woman in the Oven ('When Alice Broke the Mirror') (archive footage)
Robert Egon	...	Himself / Second Monster ('Ghosts of Sodom')
Shillett Angel	...	Filipio the Producer
Paola Cozzo	...	Nurse Lilly (as Judy Morrow)
Layla Frank	...	Nightmare Victim (archive footage)
Georgia Moore	...	Nightmare Victim (archive footage)
Paul Muller	...	Nightmare Victim (archive footage)
Marco Di Stefano	...	Man run over by car ('When Alice Broke the Mirror') (archive footage)
Maurice Poli	...	Nightmare Victim (archive footage)

Autre(s) titre(s) :

Gatto nel cervello (I volti del terrore), Un (Italy)
Nightmare Concert (A Cat in the Brain) (International: English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for horror violence/gore, a strong scene of sexuality and some nudity.

Durée:

87 min | Germany:66 min | USA:93 min

Pays:

Italy

Langue:

Italien

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Son:

Mono

Classification:

Germany:(Banned) (uncut) | Italy:VM14 (re-rating) (2000) | UK:(Banned) (original rating) | Italy:VM18 (video premiere) | USA:R | UK:18 (video rating: 2003)

Emplacements De Pelliculage:

Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Company:

Executive Cine TV

Anecdotes:

This film was refused a video classification in 1999 by the British Board of Film Classification, but was finally passed uncut with an '18' rating in mid-2003.

Movie Connections:

References E tu vivrai nel terrore - L'aldilà (1981)

Fulci's Last Great Film

Fulci is one of my all time favorite Italian splatter directors. He is also a very good story teller mixing horror, the supernatural, and psychedelic themes altogether very well. This film was truly his last great story before he directed such disappointments as "Voices From Beyond". The story is simple as Fulci plays himself, a horror director. After years of filming splatter and gore films it seems that Fulci starts to suffer a breakdown in which he starts hallucinating about people being slaughtered. He decides to see a psychiatrist who only makes matters worse when he convinces Fulci that he is killing people.

Fulci used gore scenes from several pictures around the same time. These films I don't believe he directed but certainly produced. Some of those films are "Massacre" directed by Andrea Bianchi (Burial Ground), "Touch of Death" directed by Fulci, "The Murders Secret" and I can't remember the rest of the films.

Nightmare Concert is a very underrated film, even by Fulci fans. But I loved this movie and have watched it many times already. It is sad that Fulci didn't get a chance to direct anything worth while after this but nonetheless this is a great film and I do recommend it to any Fulci fan, whether you like it or not. 9/10 stars