Based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe, Eye of the Black Cat focuses on Oliviero Rouvigny (Luigi Pistilli), a down-on-his luck writer living in an isolated villa with his wife Irina (Anita Strindberg). Oliviero is a brute—a sexist, an adulterer, a misogynist, and a drunk—complete with an unhealthy obsession with his dead mother. He makes Irina's life miserable at every turn.

Things soon become interesting when the young woman that Oliviero is having an affair with turns up dead at the hands of a maniac with an oddly-curved knife. Irina immediately suspects her husband is the killer—something she becomes surer of when the maid turns up dead in the house (Oliviero wasn't above sleeping with the hired help, either). Things become even more interesting when Oliviero's niece Floriana (Edwige Fenech) shows up unexpectedly. Floriana is an agent provocateur, bedding everyone in the cast and amplifying the tension of an already tenuous situation. When the killer's true identity is revealed, things only get worse as a climax of double-crosses not unlike Mario Bava's Bay of Blood ensues—leading up to a Poe-inspired ending that's far more satisfying than it probably should be.

Starring
Edwige Fenech .... Floriana
Anita Strindberg .... Irina Rouvigny
Luigi Pistilli .... Oliviero Rouvigny
Ivan Rassimov .... Walter

Directed by
Sergio Martino

Writing credits
Edgar Allan Poe story "The Black Cat"
Adriano Bolzoni screenplay
Ernesto Gastaldi screenplay
Sauro Scavolini screenplay

Year: 1972.
Country: Italy.

Also Known As:

* Il Tuo Vizio E Una Stanza Chiusa E Solo Io Ne Ho La Chiave
* Excite Me
* Gently Before She Dies
* Your Vice Is a Closed Room and Only I Have the Key

Media Format: DVD-R
Regional Code: 0 (All Regions/Countries).
Video Format: NTSC (North America/Japan)
Language: Italian.
Subtitles: English.
Audio: Stereo.
Picture Format: Widescreen.
Video Source Quality Rating: A