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rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:

8. The Black Cat (1934). A strange collage of science fictional and gothic elements. Boris Karloff lives in an Art Deco mansion in Hungary built on the site of a WWI massacre and the movie treats the mansion as the 20th century's equivalent of a gothic manor. But the conversion from 19th to 20th century is incomplete so you have servants in peasant blouses wandering around in rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows and bakelite alarm clocks

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• Poster for The Black Cat (1934). A black cat with luminescent eyes forms the background of the poster, over which float the greenish faces of Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. In the center, a servant of Boris carries a woman in a nightgown who has swooned