This is quite simply the best acted horror film ever made. Forget the couple, forget the spouse, forget the comic relief, this baby is all about Karloff and Lugosi. The two greatest horror actors of all time go head to head with two of the best roles of each of their careers, and the result is incomparable. Lugosi's deranged, misunderstood martyr holds his own with Karloff's dark, methodical satanist, to the point where I wonder which one I'd rather have to spend a weekend with (Lugosi's nicer, but nutty as all get out, and Karloff is more rational but just plain evil). The creepy post-modernist house is a star in and of itself. Love this film.
Review of The Black Cat
