The Black Cat 4K 1981

In my opinion, Lucio Fulci is an inconsistent director. He has some clear masterpieces, but he also has some pretty average horror movies that don’t try to be anything special.
This film falls into the second category. I remember that the story by Poe really got under my skin back in the day. But this film turned out to be more of a comedy horror than a thriller.

Fulci is famous as a master of elaborate killings. Here, we’ll have the chance to enjoy a couple of them. There are plenty of deaths in the film, but they’re all more funny than scary.

And the cat itself, rather than inspiring horror, evokes tenderness. In my opinion, there’s nothing diabolical about this fluffy little creature.

This is the second film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” that I’ve watched.
Dario Argento’s 1990 film *Two Evil Glances* turned out to be a truly terrifying story. Here, though it’s interesting, it’s never scary.

By the way, the film includes an exact replica of a scene from another Fulci film, *The Lizard in a Woman’s Skin* (1971), where the heroine is attacked by bats in a dark room. It’s an exact copy.