Throughout we see some strange lizard symbolism, or maybe it's just creepy window dressing, including lizard bas reliefs on the witch's building that show a snake fighting two lizards, several stuffed lizards in a creepy attic that Rose discovers in the the building, and we also see a live lizard eating a moth. I don't know what any of that means, or if it means anything. I got the feeling they were just throwing in weird things and colors for atmosphere. The lizard appears to be a female Western Green Lizard, which is found throughout Italy, though the location is New York.

Better than the lizard stuff, there are some good scenes with cats - a beautiful witch holding a cat in a classroom, cats attacking and killing a woman, and a man catching cats and putting them all in one bag then trying to drown them in a lake, but he gets eaten alive by rats instead. Cats On Film calls it a major cat movie. I call it a very minor lizard movie, but it's definitely not boring.