
If anyone were to doubt that dear Lucio could hit the spot when he wished they should consider Nightmare Concert as a reminder that he could occasionally create moments of uncompromising excess. Nightmare Concert is a clipshow that not only delivers what fans of horror period Fulci craved but also answered his censors and critics by taking them to task on the idea that film violence damages minds. Fulci mocks this point of view.

During the 1980s Fulci put his name to a number of films by other directors under the title Lucio Fulci Presents. One of the series, Andrea Bianchi's dreadful Massacre, provides a giallo framework for A Cat In The Brain which plays through clips from a number of features, most notably Fulci's own darkly misogynistic comedy Touch Of Death. The results are interesting to say the least.