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The Black Cat

The Black Cat

6.7/ 10

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1934

Release Year

65 min

Runtime

Horror

Overview

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

Keywords

chess
prisoner of war
hungary
black and white
train
storm
psychiatrist
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spiral staircase
high priest
newlywed
pre-code
based on short story
satanic ritual
satanic cult
psychotronic
preserved corpse
female corpse
devil worship
mystery writer
wife murderer
woman in peril
bus crash
europe honeymoon
flaying
glass display cases
gun turret
married to stepdaughter

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Reviews(2)

7.0avg rating
John Chard

John Chard

October 1, 2018

7
7/10

Weird and hypnotic creeper. The first, and arguably in terms of their dual performances, best teaming of Horror legends Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is this almost bizarre Edgar G. Ulmer directed piece. Based around a story by Edgar Allan Poe, The Black Cat sees a young couple, Peter & Joan Alli

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

June 13, 2022

7
7/10

This great pairing of Messrs. Karloff and Lugosi make for a fun, if not particularly scary, horror movie from Universal. An honeymoon couple are travelling through Hungary when their bus is involved in an accident near the castle of "Hjalmar Poelzig" (Karloff). Together with fellow traveller "Vitus

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