Death Walks at Midnight (La morte accarezza a mezzanotte/Cry Out in Terror). Luciano Ercoli, 1972.
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Edition screened: Included in Arrow Blu-ray box set, Death Walks Twice: Two Films by Luciano Ercoli released 2016. Italian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 103 minutes.
Summary: Murdered cat
Details: A dead long-haired cat is held by its tail, his head half cut off, 1:04:35-1:04:45. Close-up of a (different?) dead cat’s face under bushes, 1:14:02-1:14:06.
This gore is completely gratuitous, lacking even the common cheap-script take this as a warning! implications. There is just the dead cat with the comment “it was necessary,” and soon thereafter we see one of the film’s many villains with scratches on his cheek leaving us to presume that there was an altercation with the cat. None of this has relevance to the film in any way.
