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‘Loss of life means nothing to a beast with 9 lives!
Seven Deaths within the Cat’s Eyes is a 1973 European Giallo-horror movie a couple of collection of murders that happen inside a Scottish citadel.
Directed by Antonio Margheriti (Net of the Spider; Fortress of Blood; The Virgin of Nuremberg) from a screenplay co-written with Giovanni Simonelli (A Cat within the Mind; Bloody Psycho; The Crimes of the Black Cat).
The movie’s rating by Riz Ortolani makes use of musical cue’s from earlier Margheriti movies equivalent to The Virgin of Nuremberg, and Fortress of Blood.
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The Italian-French-West German manufacturing stars Jane Birkin, Hiram Keller, Françoise Christophe, Venantino Venantini (Metropolis of the Dwelling Lifeless), Doris Kunstmann and Anton Diffring (Mark of the Satan; Circus of Horrors).
Plot:
Dragonstone Fortress, Scotland: A person is murdered with a razor by an unknown killer. The killer drags the person’s physique right into a dimly lit dungeon and is adopted by a ginger cat.
:Corringa (Jane Birkin) returns to spend summer season along with her mom. A gorilla is seen watching the carriage from an higher window.
Corringa is reunited along with her mom, Girl Alicia (Dana Ghia), and her aunt, Girl Mary MacGrieff (Francoise Christophe). Different citadel residents embody Physician Franz (Anton Diffring), a priest (Venantino Venatini), the French instructor Suzanna (Doris Kunstmann), and her mad cousin, the son and inheritor of Girl Mary, Lord James MacGrieff (Hiram Keller). After a cocktail party, Girl Alicia is suffocated with a pillow whereas the ginger cat watches…
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Our evaluation:
This gothic Giallo begins in a frenetic method with a pre-credits homicide, after which rats devour the corpse-all the whereas considered by the chubby titular moggy. This unsubtle opening units the tone for what turns into nearly a black comedy by which each character both a blathering eccentric or stark raving mad (it’s no shock that author Simonelli and director Margheriti’s earlier stab on the style, The Younger the evil and the Savage, was additionally stuffed with humour).
To prime all of it, there’s the splendidly absurd notion that lunatic Lord James would hold a reside ex-circus gorilla caged up in his quarters, which permits for some classic monkeying about behind wall panels by the true killer. References to chimaeras and vampires and even “a brand new concept by somebody known as Freud” are thrown into the pot however go nowhere.
The casting of Euro-pop chantress Jane Birkin and Gallic songster Serge Gainsbourg provides novelty worth to the proceedings however little else. Sumptuously-lensed, this entertainingly overblown package deal is suitably complemented by Riz Ortolani’s recycled bombastic orchestral preparations.
Ade J Smith, MOVIES and MANIA
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Forged and characters:
Jane Birkin … Corringa
Hiram Keller … Lord James MacGrieff
Françoise Christophe … Girl Mary MacGrieff
Venantino Venantini … Father Robertson
Doris Kunstmann … Suzanne
Anton Diffring … Physician Franz
Dana Ghia … Girl 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 … Policeman with a moustache
Tom Felleghy … Man at Funeral
Silvio Klein … Undertaker
Filming areas:
Incir De Paolis, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Castello Massimo, Arsoli, Roma, Italy
Filming dates:
February 1972
Alternate titles:
La morte negli occhi del gatto (Italy)
Les Diablesses (France)
Sieben Tote in den Augen der Katze (Germany)
Cat’s Murdering Eye
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