Watched Nightmare Concert, aka A Cat in the Brain, a Lucio Fulci movie from 1990 which was at the very end of his career.
Reading about the movie, it intrigued me. It's a meta-film about movie making in which director Lucio Fulci stars and satires himself going mad due to working with grotesque horror movies for so long. He suffers psychotic episodes where he can't differentiate between the fiction from his movies and real life and things only get worse when he tries to get help from an even more disturbed psychiatrist.
I have to say the execution was pretty godsdamn awful, though. The plot is so badly presented, it doesn't really do much to engage the viewer. Even worse, it was horribly dubbed and some of the scenes were just plain stupid. Early in the film, Fulci has a psychotic episode where he attacks a woman and tries to rip all her clothes off. When he apologizes for his behaviour, she instead thanks him for the thrill. All of it's just cheap and weird. Constantly throughout the movie, Fulci will see something, like a water running from a tap, which will remind him of something from his movies and we get to see some grisly footage from older movies he's directed or produced.
Basically, what sounds like it could be interesting, the director in front of the screen making a meta film where he spoofs himself and the industry, becomes just another poor excuse to put vast amounts of gore on the screen. This time, the paper thin plot, the horrible editing and weird insertions of stock footage and so on reduce the emotional impact of the violence even more until it becomes the cheapest kind of exploitation.
For those who like gore, it has heads cooked in the microwave, cannibalism, chainsawing off heads and other body parts, face smashed with hammer, stabbings, drownings, nude women getting ****ed, slapped and murdered, all you could want .. but it's still a bore!
The most impressionable thing about it was a nice twist at the very end and a very screwed up start which shows a cat puppet having a feast in some brainy entrails. Overall, I'm disappointed in a movie I thought would be interesting, but turned out to be stupid and incredibly lazy as it recycles a lot of stock footage.