Watching Your Vice Is A Locked Room... the other night and it occurred to me that not only is the cat, Satan, a character in the film, it is an important and pivotal character and not just a prop of a plot device. She is the wronged woman. She is the femme fatale burning with vengeance, the man she loved now dead and she is intent in bringing justice to his killer. She is not a lady to be trifled with. The killer knows how dangerous this cat is and tries to kill it, and if she had succeeded, her nemesis would not have been there to spoil her plan.
The cat in a giallo is symbolic of the giallo femme fatale. Lovely to look at, sweet to hold, but capable of sinking her claws in if the fancy takes her.
(In the picture The two leading ladies of Your Vice Is A Locked Room And I Have The Key: Satan and the ever delectable Edwige Fenech.)
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