The Black Cat (Le chat noir)
When the trio's bus from the train station gets into an accident, the young couple accompanies Verdegast to the castle of the spectral Hjalmar Poelzig (Karloff), an architect and the leader of a Satanic cult.
20 October 1882, Lugos, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary [now Lugoj, Timis County, Romania]
26 April 1891, Wellington, Somerset, England, UK
January 20, 1898 in Aleppo, Syria
4 October 1886, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
October 5, 1912 in McAllen, Texas, USA
March 27, 1890 in Straßburg, Alsace, Germany [now Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France]
18 February 1867, Halle an der Saale, Province of Saxony, Prussia [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]
15 March 1886, Mogilev, Russian Empire [now Belarus]
23 November 1887, Camberwell, London, England, UK
4 July 1888, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
5 February 1906, New York City, New York, USA
7 October 1905, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
30 March 1889, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
December 21, 1894
30 August 1914, Denver, Colorado, USA
7 November 1889, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
July 03, 2010
Edgar G. Ulmer's grandest danse macabre, a magnificently sustained trance
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.
October 19, 2008
A magnificently eerie entry from the early days of Hollywood horror.
October 14, 2014
This bizarre, utterly irrational masterpiece, lasting little more than an hour, has images that bury themselves in the mind.
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.
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 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...
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 15, 2008
No monsters but lots of atmosphere, this is a classic of the genre.
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.
