The Black Cat
1934, Horror, 1h 5m
35 Reviews 2,500+ RatingsWhat to know
Making the most of its Karloff-Lugosi star pairing and loads of creepy atmosphere, The Black Cat is an early classic in the Universal monster movie library. Read critic reviews
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Hjalmar Poelzig
Dr. Vitus Werdegast
Peter Alison
Joan Alison
Karen Werdegast Poelzig
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Critic Reviews for The Black Cat
All Critics (35) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (4)
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The Black Cat is a wittily self-ironising affair, mixing and matching its incongruous parts to produce something thoroughly Poe-stmodern.
April 5, 2021 | Full Review… -
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.
October 20, 2016 | Full Review… -
A dismal hocus-pocus which seems to confuse its actors as much as it fails to frighten its audience.
October 19, 2008 | Full Review… -
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.
September 26, 2007 | Full Review… -
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.
September 26, 2007 | Full Review… -
More foolish than horrible. The story and dialogue pile the agony on too thick to give the audience a reasonable scare.
August 8, 2006 | Full Review…
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