Sadly, neither is present in The Black Cat . A few cat scratches that result in a few spurts of blood here and there, but compared to some of his others, The Black Cat is really lacking in this department. It was great to see David Warbeck, an actor who appears in many Fulci films, but I sure wish Catriona MacColl had been cast to play the roll of Jill. The actress who played Jill just didn't do much for me, and Catriona and David had a chemistry between them that worked well on the screen. After The Black Cat came The Beyond , so at least he moved back in the right direction.
Colors are gorgeous, providing deep, solid blacks, and natural looking flesh tones.
I didn't see any noticeable MPEG artificating either. There's several scenes where light grain is visible, but nothing heavy or distracting. Blemishes are minimal but they're definitely still present in the transfer. Several scenes have some annoying black vertical lines appear on the right edge of the frame which disappear after a few seconds, reappear, and then finally disappear until next time. Towards the end of the movie I noticed a white vertical line that appeared in the center of the image.