The Black Cat (1984)

Very best movie i ever watch

The Age of Commercialism

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The Black Cat (Lucio Fulci 1981)This film is badass!! A cat on the prowl, seen from it's perspective, what could be better than that? And Jill Trevers is pretty cool, too. I like her character a lot. I liked her hair, she has very nice blonde hair. In the boat house, I kind of wonder why the air conditioner would be working in such an old boat house. They like to neck, I get that. Why Fulci chose to do it like this is beyond me. How does the air conditioner break anyways? There are a lot of jump cuts and stuff that are symbolic of old 70's slasher films. I mean this cool. With these type of movies. We see the group of teens wander into the woods. And the ones having sex are always the ones who get it. Fulci adds this into this film in a clever way. The screeching music in this film sometimes works and sometimes it doesn't. I'm not complaining or anything, I just think, for instance, when Prof. Robert Miles is running his field tests in the cemetery, this could've been better. It seems more like hallway music to me. Somebody walking down a hallway, or something like that, and maybe a jump scare here or there, yeah.... I wondered if The Black Cat had rabies.? Lot of questions left unanswered in this film. Like why does Fulci always use these angle shots of the eyes? And where is everyone? In 1981, there would be tourists still out and about, walking the street. Though I don't get what year it is in this film. Inspector Gorley is a trip though man. I thought he was drunk by how stupid his questions were. Aside from that there is a moment of clairvoyance when Jill is taking some pictures. And this element I like. Skipping ahead still, I'm not sure who was driving that boat, but that was a terrible docking. I would have liked a close up of the cockpit of the boat. Are there cans of Budweiser? Are they smoking? We hear the scream in the dock-house, but then Fulci jump cuts to Prof. Miles. Why now? He should leave the scream going longer. And show one of the people calming her. I understand that seeing what she saw in there would've been frightening, I mean I would've been shitting my pants too, but yeah. C'mon man!! A bunch of officers and gentleman, they are like, ugh, what do we do now? So, the cat broke the ventilator upon entering? Okay, I need more detail here. This quickly turns into a mystery novel. Another thing I don't understand. No smoke detectors, huh.... Did they not believe in fire detectors in this point in time. Some of the best filming ever, though, during the fire scene. Accolades to Fulci. And what this film lacked, despite it being suffering from clear editing mistakes, makes up for it in this one highly awesome take. Some of these scenes would've worked well in William Freidkin's (The Exorcist, 1973). Mainly, the bedroom scene from this film. I think I'd be more afraid if I cut and pasted the demon and added it into this film, just because it is a darker atmosphere. And the objects look raw and gritty. So I like that in a film. Like Prof. R. Miles would've made a great Dr. Brown from Back to the Future, but that is besides the point. I like how Jill is able to speak her mind in this film. And Inspector Gorley... I mean he had it coming. There is this element of surprise in Fulci's films. In this one he takes a Poe story and gives his own take on it. So he fills that element of surprise with this cool mind controlling bit. And it works. I wanted to know more about Jill. Why did she decide to get a dream job in art, and who pays her. Fulci never really mentions the company she works for. So, we don't know. The music in this film is almost identical to Toby Hooper's Salem's Lot. Especially towards the end. I'm wondering why Jill doesn't get rabies from the bats. Cool film!! Definitely a win win!!

(58%) A Lucio Fulci movie in the category of movies that make at least some sort of sense - well apart from the fact that this is about a killer moggie. And if it is a killer cat movie you're after then this is certainly one of the very best that really does offer what you'd expect. At its best this is a very well shot, creepy, Hichcockian man vs beast nightmare with the great Patrick Magee getting plenty of screen time, well, at least his eyes do. But at its worst it's a bit tepid, and once you've seen the cat strike, which happens very early on, then you've seen more or less all this has to offer. But this is still too entertaining, well made, and at least somewhat connected to Poe's grisly short to dismiss. For giallo fans this is a must watch, while everyone else could do a heck of a lot worse than watch this.

Following the gruesome gore-fests of Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979) and City of the Living Dead (1980), director Lucio Fulci toned down the violence and adapted the short story of the same name by Edgar Allen Poe. The film, that bares little resemblance to Poe's original story, has Inspector Gorley (David Warbeck) travel to a rural English village to investigate a string of strange deaths and occurrences. Also arriving is photography student Jill (Mimsy Farmer), who finds a strange recording device in a graveyard that traces back to the eccentric Professor Robert Miles (Patrick Magee, the vengeful assault victim from A Clockwork Orange (1971)). Miles is trying to contact the dead, but it is his strange black cat that seems to be committing the murders, and seems to be as murderous towards its owner than it is to its selected victims.This is a huge change of tone from what I've experienced previously from the Italian 'Godfather of Gore' (surely that title belongs to H.G. Lewis?), and shares more in common with Hammer's horror output and the various Roger Corman adaptations of Poe's work. Yet although the tone makes for a refreshing change, this is still a plodding and silly film, and is far from the director's best work. I've already voiced my puzzlement at how a cat can kill a human in my review of The Corpse Grinders (1971), and the same happens here. A man gets attacked in the street repeatedly by a lunging cat, and I couldn't help but shout abuse at the screen as he flailed about pathetically.The film is beautifully shot though, and if one thing can be said about Fulci, is that he knows how to shoot a smoky graveyard. His best works The Beyond (1981) and City of the Living Dead involved scenes of beautiful sepia and eerie widescreen shots of various spooky locations, and The Black Cat is no different. The early scene involving Miles attempting to communicate to the dead in a graveyard has a panning shot so beautiful that it almost cemented an extra star onto my rating. But the sheer silliness and tedium of the rest of the film brought me back to reality.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

I Thought that The Black Cat was a good Italian horror directed by Lucio Fulci. The film is about Strange things that are happening in a small English village. It all starts when a man driving a car suddenly notices a strange black cat in the back seat of his car. The cat suddenly stares at the man and causes the man to crash his car into a lamp post, killing him.The black cat then walks off back to its home, which is an old house which is owened by Robert Miles (Patrick Magee), Robert is a former college professor of the supernatural and he is also a medium and he lives alone except for his black cat. He spends his time making audio tape recordings at the tombs of people who have recently died. He uses the cat on his enemies. suddenly a photographer who works for the local constables begins to notice cat scratches on some of the accident victims. I Thought that this was a good horror Lucio Fulci who has made a lot of good horror films. RECCOMMENED.