The Black Cat (Le chat noir)
Now Verdegast has come back for retribution, and the honeymooners are trapped in the two men's horrifying battle of wits.
January 20, 1898 in Aleppo, Syria
18 February 1867, Halle an der Saale, Province of Saxony, Prussia [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]
30 March 1889, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
October 5, 1912 in McAllen, Texas, USA
20 October 1882, Lugos, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary [now Lugoj, Timis County, Romania]
26 April 1891, Wellington, Somerset, England, UK
7 November 1889, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
March 27, 1890 in Straßburg, Alsace, Germany [now Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France]
October 14, 2014
This bizarre, utterly irrational masterpiece, lasting little more than an hour, has images that bury themselves in the mind.
July 03, 2010
Edgar G. Ulmer's grandest danse macabre, a magnificently sustained trance
September 26, 2007
Story is confused and confusing, and while with the aid of heavily-shadowed lighting and mausoleum-like architecture, a certain eeriness has been achieved, it's all a poor imitation of things seen before.
October 15, 2008
No monsters but lots of atmosphere, this is a classic of the genre.
August 08, 2006
More foolish than horrible. The story and dialogue pile the agony on too thick to give the audience a reasonable scare.
October 19, 2008
A dismal hocus-pocus which seems to confuse its actors as much as it fails to frighten its audience.
February 09, 2006
Sumptuously subversive... one of the very best horror movies Universal ever made.
September 26, 2007
Ulmer never again had the budgetary resources granted him by Universal (at the time, Karloff and Lugosi were two of the studio's biggest stars), and he makes the most of them.
October 06, 2013
This timeless classic is a testimony to the craft of director Edgar G Ulmer before his career lurched into the quickie arena.
October 13, 2007
Karloff--Lugosi--Karloff--Lugosi...
October 20, 2016
Wildly expressionistic, the movie has nothing to do with the Poe story from which it takes its title and everything to do with Ulmer's sense of the Nazi menace.
October 19, 2008
A magnificently eerie entry from the early days of Hollywood horror.
