Classic Horror Movie Posters

The BLACK CAT Horror Movie Poster,1934

Original Vintage Movie Poster Lobby Card (11x14")
Starring Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi

Horror’s is the first of eight films to pair the giants of horror, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff.       

Condition: Very good with minor restoration to borders.

NOTE:   Another example of this same lobby card sold in July 2004 for $6900.   Another lobby card sold in July 2005 for $12,362.  

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The Black Cat (Universal, 1934). Lobby Card (11" X 14").
The first of eight films to pair the masters of fright, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, this film was banned is Austria, Finland, and Italy. Directed by Edgar Ulmer, many consider this film to be the finest of Lugosi's performances. 

Edgar G. Ulmer's adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat is the first of eight films to pair the giants of horror, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. So strong was the content--incest, murder, torture, devil worship, and perverse psychological obsessions--the picture was banned in Austria, Finland, and Italy. Karloff and Lugosi are at their evil best as they play a game of chess to determine the fate of a young couple.
Horror icons Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff appear together for the first time in this masterful tale of suspense, loosely adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's short story. The twisted tale features Lugosi's character, Dr. Werdegast's, paralyzing fear of cats and Karloff's character, Poelzig's, incestuous obsessions. Given the Hays Code's suppression of this type of subject matter, it's a small miracle that the film was made at all in 1934 without substantial alterations to the script. The film remains a classic of the genre with original material being extremely rare and desirable. 

This wonderful card feature's a dramatically lit image of Lugosi glaring into the camera grasping Julie Bishop's hand. 

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