La morte negli occhi del gatto (1973)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Antonio Margheriti

Writers:

Antonio Margheriti (story) and
Giovanni Simonelli (story) ...

Release Date:

12 April 1973 (Italy)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery

Tagline:

Death means NOTHING to a beast with nine lives!

Plot:

In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat. |

Plot Keywords:

Castle | Cat | Village | Investigation | Animal In Title

Cast

Jane Birkin	...	Corringa
Hiram Keller	...	Lord James MacGrieff
Françoise Christophe	...	Lady Mary MacGrieff
Venantino Venantini	...	Father Robertson
Doris Kunstmann	...	Suzanne
Anton Diffring	...	Dr. Franz
Dana Ghia	...	Lady Alicia
Konrad Georg	...	Campbell (as George Korrade)
Serge Gainsbourg	...	Police inspector
Luciano Pigozzi	...	Angus (as Alan Collins)
Bianca Doria	...	Janet Campbell
Franco Ressel	...	Priest
Alessandro Perrella	...	Policeman (as Penella Alessandro)
Bruno Boschetti

Also Known As:

Cat's Murdering Eye (Europe: English title)
Corringa
Les diablesses (France)
Seven Dead in the Cat's Eye (USA)
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye (USA)
Sieben Tote in den Augen der Katze (West Germany)

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

France | Italy | West Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Germany:16 | Italy:VM18 | Finland:K-18

Company:

Capitole Films

A muddled mess from Margheriti.

Antonio Margheriti, director of the enjoyably cheesy cult horror Cannibal Apocalypse, helms this Gothic-flavoured giallo starring gap-toothed 70s icon Jane Birkin (as well as her massive-conked French lover of the day, Serge Gainsbourg).

Unfortunately, despite the inclusion of such treats as a tasty bi-sexual French teacher and a terribly unrealistic killer orangutan, Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye ends up a dreary mess which is a struggle to endure.

Pretty schoolgirl Corringa (Birkin) returns to her family's Scottish estate after many years away, only to discover that a maniac is murdering her relatives one by one. Using the whole array of 'spooky old house' tricks (hidden doorways, dark corridors, creepy graveyards, candlelit cobweb covered rooms), Margheriti cobbles together a confusing tale which at times promises supernatural goings-on, but ends up with a lame cop-out ending that is unimaginative in the extreme.

'And where exactly does the cat fit in to all of this?', I hear you ask. Well, a rather pudgy moggy witnesses each murder thus justifying Margheriti's rather cool sounding title.

'Gory, stylish fun' claims the DVD cover; 'Boring pile of dung' says I.