| The Black Cat | |
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| Directed by | Edgar G. Ulmer |
| Screenplay by | Peter Ruric |
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| Based on | The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe ("suggested by" in name only) |
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| Starring | |
| Cinematography | John J. Mescall[1] |
| Edited by | Ray Curtiss[1] |
| Music by | Heinz Roemheld |
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| Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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Running time | 66 minutes[1] |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $95,745.31[3] |
| Box office | $236,000[4] |
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The Black Cat is a 1934 American pre-Code horror film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi. It was Universal Pictures' biggest box office hit of the year, and was the first of eight films (six of which were produced by Universal) to feature both Karloff and Lugosi. In 1941, Lugosi appeared in a comedy horror mystery film with the same title, which was also named after and ostensibly "suggested by" Edgar Allan Poe's short story.
The film was among the earlier movies with an almost continuous music score, and it helped to create and popularize the psychological horror subgenre by emphasizing atmosphere, eerie sounds, the darker side of the human psyche, and emotions like fear and guilt to deliver its scares.
- ^ a b c d e The Black Cat at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
- ^ Brown, Gene (1995). Movie Time: A Chronology of Hollywood and the Movie Industry from Its Beginnings to the Present. New York: Macmillan. p. 119. ISBN 0-02-860429-6. In New York, the film opened at the Roxy Theatre, the location of numerous Universal film premieres.
- ^ Brunas, Michael; Brunas, John; and Weaver, Tom (1990) Universal Horrors: The Studios Classic Films, 1931–46, McFarland. p.83
- ^ Jacobs, Stephen (2011) Boris Karloff: More Than a Monster, Tomahawk Press. p. 155