Expelled from Catholic school before the end of the term, young Corringa MacGrieff (Jane Birkin, LA BELLE NOISEUSE) boards a train for Scotland and Dragonstone, the ancestral home of her aunt Mary (Françoise Christophe, BORSALINO) where her mother Alicia (Dana Ghia, THE NIGHT CHILD) is spending the holidays. Corringa interrupts a chilly conversation between the two sisters over the money Mary needs to hold onto the castle, and her mother is murdered soon after. Although Mary's lover Dr. Franz (Anton Driffing, THE BEAST MUST DIE) - psychiatrist to her mad son James (Hiram Keller, FELLINI SATYRICON) - rules heart failure as her cause of death, the locals fear that subsequent throat-slashing murders among the castle's inhabitants are the result of the family legend: when a MacGrieff kills another MacGrieff, the victim turns into a vampire; the local police inspector (Birkin's partner Serge Gainsbourg, SLOGAN suspects a human culprit with more mundane motives. Suspects and potential victims include Franz's bisexual lover Suzanne (Doris Kunstmann, FUNNY GAMES) who turns her attempts at seduction for profit from James to heiress Corringa, new priest Father Robertson (Venantino Venantini, CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD), groundskeeper Angus (Luciano Pigozzi, BLOOD AND BLACK LACE), faithful servants Campbell (Konrad Georg) and his wife (Bianca Doria)m as well as James' pet orangutan which has the run of the castle corridors. Shot in the same castle exteriors as BLACK SUNDAY and Ottavio Scotti interior sets recycled from Mario Bava's THE WHIP AND THE BODY and director Antonio Margheriti's earlier THE VIRGIN OF NUREMBERG, SEVEN DEATHS IN THE CAT'S EYE is essentially a sexed-up, Giallo-tinged version of the latter film (with the 1920s setting of Margheriti's THE UNNATURALS) with ludicrous Scottish accents, monotonous throat slashings (along with a scene of a razor being used to pry up a door latch that anticipates a similar suspenseful bit in Dario Argento's SUSPIRIA), and Riz Ortolani (CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST) cues recycled from THE VIRGIN OF NUREMBERT and CASTLE OF BLOOD, that is nevertheless entertaining and sports some gorgeous cinematography by Carlo Carlini (in contrast to other Margheriti films where he and cinematographer Riccardo Pallotini employed a TV-style three camera set-up).

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Feature Size: 29,828,450,304 bytes

Blu-ray Release Date: December 26th, 2016