25.6.10

the black cat (1934)


AKA The House Of Doom. The Vanishing Body.
"Supernatural, perhaps. Baloney, perhaps not."
Joan and Peter Allison (Julie Bishop and David Manners), are Honeymooning in Eastern Europe, and meet another traveller, Dr. Vitus Verdegast (Bela Lugosi). When their bus crashes in the mountains they all take refuge in the home of architect Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff). There, cat-phobic Verdegast learns much has happened since leaving the area 18 years previously, and now he must play a cat and mouse game for all their lives and avenge his wife and daughters.
Uniting two of the greatest horror icons of all time, in Karloff and Lugosi, this is a tense film where the two come to battle wits for the lives of others.

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