Satanás

Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff work together for the first time, and they choose the “parallel universe� of one of the most unclassifiable filmmakers of the American B series: Edgar Ulmer, the man who can say more with less, genious of the poorest kind of poetry, visionary of misty passions and creator of the most asphyxiating kinds of hell. A couple in the middle of their honey-moon end up in the worst possible place: the mansion to wich the architect Hjalmar Poelzig (Karloff) has invited the psychiatrist Vitus Werdegast (Lugosi), that is to say, to the hellish hole where an executioner welcomes his former victim, now eager for revenge. Sadism, satanism and nechrophilia come together in this “marvel of oddity� wich started as an adaptation of a tale by Poe and has become a treatise of horror with the figure of Aleister Crowley as spiritual guide. A masterpiece.

The Black Cat
Estados Unidos, 1934
Dirección: Edgar G. Ulmer
Producción: Carl Laemmle, Jr. / Universal
Guión: Peter Ruric
Fotografía: John Mescall
Música: Heinz Roemheld
Montaje: Ray Curtis
Intérpretes: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop, Egon Brecher
Duración: 65 minutos