I must take a moment here to mention The Black Cat featuring Karloff vs. Lugosi. This is one of the few films that these two horror icons made together because in real life they actually hated each other! I think that their very real dislike of each other plays into their acting in this exceptional film. Young American honeymooners Peter and Joan Allison meet up with Dr. Vitus Werdegast (Lugosi) on a train in Hungary. Werdegast is returning to his home town after spending several years as a prisoner of war. When their hotel-bound bus crashes on a mountain road during a storm and Joan is injured the trio, along with Werdegast's menacing servant, are forced to seek shelter in the isolated home of Werdegast's arch-nemesis Hjalmar Poelzig (Karloff). Poelzig is a Satan worshiping preist who keeps the bodies of his past 'wives' preserved in glass 'coffins' in the basement of his futuristic art-deco house so he can admire their beauty. It turns out that one of these women was Werdegast's wife and Poelzig's current 'wife' is Werdegasts daughter! When Poelzig decides he would like to add the lovely Joan to his collection he agrees to play a game of chess against Werdegast to decide the young lady's fate. Let the fun begin! This is a great movie that was very risque for it's time and is deffinately worth watching.
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