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THE BLACK CAT
U.S., 1934
Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer
Starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, John Carradine
Art Direction by Charles D. Hall, Edgar G. Ulme
Approx. 66 min. DCP 4K restoration.
In “the most overtly Bauhaus film ever made by an American studio,” Boris Karloff’s “Poelzig” (an homage to German Expressionist designer Hans Poelzig!) practices devil worship and necrophilia in an ultra-modernistic castle — “a marvel of glass bricks, Bakelite floors and curving metal staircases.”
Reviews
“A bizarre, utterly irrational masterpiece.”
– Phillip French, The Guardian