Ernst Stavro Blofeld and Christoph Waltz, among others. It was initially a convention of the films not to show Blofeld's face, only a close-up of him stroking his white, blue-eyed Persian cat. Many of Blofeld's characteristics have become tropes in popular fiction, representing the stock character of the supervillain, with the stroking of his white cat often retained as a parodic allusion to Blofeld's character, as seen in the "Austin Powers" film series with the character of Dr. Evil and his cat Mr. Bigglesworth, or in the cartoons "Inspector Gadget" with the character of Dr. Claw and "Danger Mouse" with the character of
A Cat in the Brain losing his grip on reality and disturbed by murderous fantasies, Fulci consults a psychotherapist. The "shrink" exploits the director's vulnerabilities to his own murderous ends. "A Cat in the Brain" has been called the horror film equivalent of Federico Fellini's "8½", using cynical, Grand Guignol humour. Juxtaposing gory horror clips from several of his own past horror films which he either directed and/or produced, Lucio Fulci shot a wrap-around segment featuring his own plot and used Vincenzo Tomassi's film editing (as well as his own voice over) to create the storyline – a personal insight into the effects of horror