The Black Cat

John Dodsworth, who appeared in The Mole People, The Magnetic Monster, and The 27th Day.

And finally, in 1904, director Edgar G. Ulmer, whose films include Daughter of Dr. Jekyll, The Man from Planet X, the 1934 version of The Black Cat starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and Smallville.

Happy birthday to everyone.

I'm surprised there's no Amityville.

It's pretty close to how we use it now by the, by the middle '30s, right? Like, very, very quickly.

You get to, like, The Black Cat, which is what?

'34.

So you get to The Black Cat by '34.

It's got a full soundtrack, right? You know, '31, no soundtracks.

Frankenstein, Dracula famously have music at the beginning and end.

That's the beginning of our, our genre really happening right here, and it's super successful, right? And then in '32, people are just like, "Holy shit, this horror thing." We e- get, like, um, Island of Lost Souls, and The Mummy, and Murders in the Rue Morgue, and Old Dark House, and White Zombie, and we're getting, like, quite a few horror films coming up.

And in '33, you know, King Kong, Murders in the Zoo, Mystery of the Wax Museum.

yeah.

But that might be one of his most interesting roles because he's kind of like the... puppet master of the whole story you know where he um kind of gets control of the monster and is like using the Frankenstein family as like a way to get revenge um he's also in a really great creepy movie called The Black Cat with uh it's him and again uh Boris Karloff um So those are kind of like other ones that are talked about with him.

So any of those would be really good.

Okay, cool.

They were competitors to a degree.

If you watch The Black Cat, for example, it's a wonderful film because the two of them are kind of adversarial in their performances.

They are kind of trying to outdo the other one in the film.

It's kind of fascinating to look at.

This guy who hears a little too much and then thinks he has power over it with that knowledge and does not work out for him too much.

I'd probably put The Black Cat.

Yeah.

the the 30s black cat in there too

Hello and welcome to Mindset Movie Reviews.

Today we're doing a movie review of The Black Cat.

The Black Cat, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and released in 1934, is a film that stands as a testament to the eerie and unsettling atmosphere that classic horror can evoke.

Set against the backdrop of post-war Hungary, the film follows American honeymooners Joan and Peter Allison as they find themselves trapped in the fortress-like home of the sinister architect Hjalmar Polzig, played by Boris Karloff.

Their journey begins innocently enough, but quickly spirals into a nightmarish ordeal involving satanic rituals, necrophilia, and a chilling game of chess for their lives.

The architectural design of Polzig's mansion, built on the site of a bloody battlefield, adds to the film's unsettling mood.

The use of shadows and geometric patterns enhances the sense of dread and foreboding that permeates the film.

While The Black Cat is loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's story, the film takes significant liberties with the source material.

You want to hear that one? Yes, I do.

The Black Cat, 1934.

The tagline, things you never said before nor even dreamed of.

Man, the end of that movie.