IMDb plot summary: American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.
Directed by Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, and Julie Bishop.
I'm going to do it, I'm going to only watch horror movies this October. Not necessarily one every day, but everything I do watch will be a horror movie. Let's start with The Black Cat, a 1934 film starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, two actors synonymous with classic horror, only a couple years after their most famous monster roles. The nature of the enmity between the two leads is explained just enough to pique our interest, and watching them battle for both their revenge and the lives and souls of the innocent bystanders is a lot of fun. The film plays a bit with whether or not one of them is a hero or whether both are as villainous as they immediately seem. The plot reveals that do happen are pretty campy and melodramatic, and large eerie pieces are just left unexplained, but this is about atmosphere more than anything, and the film has that in spades. I would have liked maybe a little bit more back story and a stronger connection to the black cat of the title, but it's still very enjoyable.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Black Cat > The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
The Black Cat > Barton Fink
The Black Cat < Leap of Faith
The Black Cat < Super 8
The Black Cat < Taxi Driver
The Black Cat < Sherlock Jr.
The Black Cat < Fruitvale Station
The Black Cat < The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Black Cat < Jack Goes Boating
The Black Cat < Chronicle
The Black Cat > Robot and Frank
The Black Cat > Whip It
Final spot: #803 out of 3226, or 75%.
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