The beautiful Corringa arrives at a remote castle in the Scottish Highlands after being expelled from school. Once there we meet her mother,Aunt Mary, her mad son James. Also present are non family members who include Franz the Doctor who is there to treat the son and his lesbian girlfriend Suzanne. On the first night in the castle Corringa's mother is suffocated by an unknown assailant. At the funeral Angus the man who brought Corringa to the castle has his throat cut in the crypt after he goes back to rescue the cat who has been locked inside. Corringa's mental state begins to deteriorate after she is attacked by the cat while sleeping. In the morning the Doctor is confronted by a police inspector standing over Angus's body he asks the doctor to get him a death certificate.Meanwhile Corringa seems to be attracted to James and while visiting him is disturbed to find he keeps a caged Gorilla, she is also pursued by Suzanne who is attracted to her.Corringa confides in the local priest about her fears and her dreams that her mother will return as a vampire the priest tries but fails to convince her otherwise she runs off to tell James her fears and they kiss.Later someone lets the gorilla out of his cage. Corringa goes to her mothers tomb and is shocked to discover it has been wrecked as she flees from the tomb she runs into James and they end up making love. Later Mary walks in on Franz and Suzanne making love (he is also seeing her) and storms out Franz chases after her. Franz tries to blackmail Mary with a guily secret about her dead daughter whom everyone believes was killed by James. Suzanne leaves franz's room and tries to seduce Corringa but she is rejected and runs out. Franz is later murdered in the corridor by an unknown killer. The priest arrives and goes up to see James hes discovers him sitting over the body of his dead Gorilla who has been killed. Suzanne confronts Mary over her covering up of Corringa's mothers death and the police are called they open the coffin and find Franz's body instead. James appears in Corringa's room and tells him he knows who the killer is before he can he has to leave the room as the police believe him to be the killer. James retreats into the castle catacombs and finds one of the servants badly beaten he tells him he must save Suzanne as she is next, James runs off to help her but arrives too late as she is killed while packing to leave. Corringa discovers Mary standing over the body and runs away believing her to be the killer Corringa flees to the basement an discovers a rotten body and her mothers body. The killer is revealed to be the priest who is not really the priest (He's the rotten body)!!He tells Corringa he has just killed Mary he reveals himself to be a distant cousin who wants all the family money but he is shot by the police before he can kill her. This is a good giallo which is quite quick moving and atmospheric at times the killer was quite a surprise I recommend this to any fans of Giallo cinema.
Review of Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes
