![]() ![]() Opening and Closing Credits – thanking Purple Planet Music for our fantastic Opening and Closing Credits. We are joined by The Literary License Podcast Dark Shadows co-host Tom Diamon. The film involves a nightmare that involves necrophilia, ailurophobia, drugs, a deadly game of chess, torture, flaying, and a black mass with a human sacrifice. In fact, it is so loosely based that the Poe story is almost non-existent. ![]() ![]() The film is very loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story. This would be the first of eight films to pair up Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. It would be the biggest Universal box office smash of that year. More than any of Poes stories, The Black Cat illustrates best the capacity of the human mind to observe its own deterioration and the ability of the mind. Directed by Edga G Ulmer (set designer for Metropolis) would direct this pre-Hayes film based on the Edgar Allen Poe film of the same name. ![]()
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