- Title: The Black Cat
- Original Title: The Black Cat
- Release Date: 07/05/1934
- Tagline: Things you never said before nor even dreamed of!
- Budget: $95,745.00
- Duration:65 Min / 01:05
- Country:US
- Genre:Horror
About Film
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.
Movie Rating: 6.68
Total Votes: 275
Reviews
John Chard
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 Allison (David Manners & Julie Bishop), who while...
Geronimo1967
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 Werdegast" (a slightly theatrical Lugosi) they...