[2] It stars Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, Al Cliver, David Warbeck, and Dagmar Lassander.

In a small English village, a man driving a car encounters a black cat in the back seat.

Meanwhile, American tourist Jill Trevers enters an open crypt to photograph it for her scrapbook and discovers a microphone on the floor.

At a boathouse, teenager Maureen Grayson and her boyfriend Stan lock themselves in an airtight room to have sex.

Holding a bracelet owned by Maureen, Miles enters a trance and describes the boathouse, and the location of the key.

The next day, Jill, still thinking that Miles is the real killer, sneaks into his house when he goes out and snoops around, uncovering recordings of his conversations with the dead.

Meanwhile, Gorley, having survived the car accident, goes with Wilson and his superior, Inspector Flynn, over to Miles' house and insists on searching it for signs of the cat and Jill.

At the cellar, they notice the newly bricked-up wall and batter it down, finding a barely alive Jill and the dead cat, which Miles accidentally incarcerated there.

The film's original shooting title was Il gatto di Park Lane (transl.

[3] It was shot on location in the villages of West Wycombe, Chalfont St Giles and Hambleden, Buckinghamshire, and at film studios in Rome.

[7] Allmovie wrote, "As usual, [Fulci] conjures up a spooky atmosphere with effortless skill – a scene with Patrick Magee wandering through a fog-shrouded graveyard at night is truly creepy – but the film's meandering script makes it sputter when it should be building in intensity.