

The Black Cat
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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.
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6.7/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $95.7K
- Box office
- $236K
- Language
- French
- chess
- prisoner of war
- hungary
- black and white
- train
- storm
- psychiatrist
- black cat
- spiral staircase
- high priest
- newlywed
- pre-code
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Premiere3 May 1934
- Theatrical7 May 1934
PolandPL
- Digital / OTT1226 Aug 2017
SwedenSE
- Theatrical13 Oct 1934
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The Black Cat was released on 7 May 1934.
Audience reviews
2- J7/10
John Chard
10/1/2018
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 on their honeymoon in Budapest meet the mysterious scientist Dr. Vitus Ver…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
6/13/2022
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 seek refuge and find themselves caught up in a tale of retribution betwee…
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