Having little to do with the Edgar Allan Poe story of the same name, The Black Cat has grown in stature over the years and is now widely regarded as the masterpiece of director Edgar G. Ulmer and one of the finest horror films ever made.
7 November 1889, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
30 August 1914, Denver, Colorado, USA
January 20, 1898 in Aleppo, Syria
15 March 1886, Mogilev, Russian Empire [now Belarus]
23 November 1887, Camberwell, London, England, UK
December 21, 1894
October 5, 1912 in McAllen, Texas, USA
4 October 1886, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
7 October 1905, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA
30 March 1889, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
18 February 1867, Halle an der Saale, Province of Saxony, Prussia [now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany]
4 July 1888, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
5 February 1906, New York City, New York, USA
20 October 1882, Lugos, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary [now Lugoj, Timis County, Romania]
26 April 1891, Wellington, Somerset, England, UK
March 27, 1890 in Straßburg, Alsace, Germany [now Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France]
October 14, 2014
This bizarre, utterly irrational masterpiece, lasting little more than an hour, has images that bury themselves in the mind.
September 26, 2007
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
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.
October 20, 2016
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.
August 08, 2006
More foolish than horrible. The story and dialogue pile the agony on too thick to give the audience a reasonable scare.
October 19, 2008
A magnificently eerie entry from the early days of Hollywood horror.
October 15, 2008
No monsters but lots of atmosphere, this is a classic of the genre.
July 03, 2010
Edgar G. Ulmer's grandest danse macabre, a magnificently sustained trance
October 06, 2013
This timeless classic is a testimony to the craft of director Edgar G Ulmer before his career lurched into the quickie arena.
October 13, 2007
Karloff--Lugosi--Karloff--Lugosi...
October 19, 2008
A dismal hocus-pocus which seems to confuse its actors as much as it fails to frighten its audience.
February 09, 2006
Sumptuously subversive... one of the very best horror movies Universal ever made.
