And here's another viewing after a space of way too many years: Edgar Ulmer's 1934 The Black Cat. This is a result of Janet and I going down an Edgar Ulmer rabbit hole the other night, although I'd hate to think how many times I watched this movie on Saturday night horror movie slots (I'm sure the Cool Ghoul played some role in my first viewing). The was the first of eight films that co-starred Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, both fresh off of their star-making roles in Frankenstein and Dracula. Karloff (as Hjalmar Poelzig) and Lugosi (as Dr. Vitus Werdegast) as old enemies, who had both been in love with the same woman, who finally meet up to settle the score. There's a connecting story about a young married couple (David Manners and Jacqueline Wells as Mr. and Mrs. Allison, but nobody showed up at the theater to watch them). It's pre-Code, so it's a bit over the top and included scenes and themes that would have been unheard of a couple of years later. Required. "Supernatural, perhaps, Baloney, perhaps not."
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