Cat in the Brain (1990, Lucio Fulci)

"Cat in the Brain" is a nice slice of crazy gore from the veritable horror legend who certainly knew how to bring on the boundless bloodshed throughout his vast film making career: the incomparable Lucio Fulci. This being one of his later films, it's clearly a bit more of a personal undertaking, although it doesn't appear to take itself too seriously, what with the over-the-top nature of the splatter element.

The exalted "Godfather of Gore" not only directed but also stars as himself - playing a seasoned horror director who's beginning to show signs of schizophrenia, thought to be from years of producing on-screen brutality. He ends up seeing a psychiatrist who hypnotizes him into believing that he is a violent serial killer while the shrink, himself, is actually the one out slaughtering unsuspecting people with a switchblade and hatchet. Fulci keeps seeing some whacked out shit, like melting corpse faces and other such macabre freakiness...

As one would expect, the gore is nasty and plentiful. You got throat slashings, face stabbing, a gruesome chainsaw dismemberment and even the grisly chainsaw decapitation of a small child. All shit that'll plump ANY Fulci fan's pecker right away! Aside from the splatter, there's some notably humorous bits such as a woman who is constantly singing, getting choked out with a whip and a Nazi orgy (part of one of Fulci's hallucinations) in which a guy shoots a billiard into a woman's vagina as she lays on the pool table while Fulci yells "Get it in the pocket!". So, needless to say, "Cat in the Brain" - though not Fulci's best, by FAR - is still a hoot and if you haven't seen it, get your ass in gear and do so!