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Cat In The Brain DVD (Grindhouse Releasing)

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Coming off a superb (I’m told – too expensive for me right now) Special Edition of Pieces, Grindhouse Releasing are bringing Lucio Fulci’s self-reflective slasher Cat In The Brain to DVD on March 31, 2009. No word yet if that a representational enhanced cover above for the disc, nor extras.

Dr. Lucio Fulci is a director of splatterfilms. He stages a gestapo-orgy like it was any other movie scene. But he is influenced by these things more than he likes. He is hunted by bloody visions day by day. Is Fulci still normal? He asks a psychatrist. He doesn’t know that the psychatrist has much bigger problems than Fulci himself. The psychatrist uses Fulci’s visions for brutal murders in real life…

Pieces DVD From Grindhouse Releasing

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My future drinking buddy Wil over at Horror Yearbook recently alerted me that the [Bastards! Bastards! Bastards! at] Grindhouse Releasing have finally finished up work on their 2-Disc Special Edition DVD of Pieces and slated that chunkola of cheese for an October 28th release.

I’ve always felt this 1982 Spanish slasher stands as a vestigial counterpart to Sleepaway Camp. It has subtle homosexual underpinnings, the killer has a psychological motivation that isn’t completely apparent until a second viewing, and the ending – well, let’s just say every man out there felt sympathetic pains in their crotch. Ouch.

No word if this welcome release will feature the rumored X-rated hardcore footage, but I expect its existence of lack of will be addressed in the copious extras. Speak of, roll call:

-Original uncensored theatrical version
-Spectacular new hi-definition digital anamorphic widescreen transfer
-Optional Spanish soundtrack with original score by Librado Pastor
-Special 5.1 audio option – the Vine Theater Hollywood Experience!
-Never before seen in-depth interviews with director Juan Piquer and genre superstar Paul L. Smith
-Original theatrical trailer, gallery of stills and poster art
-Exhaustive filmographies
-Liner notes by legendary horror journalist Chas Balun