My favorite Halloween movie , Richard Brody

The movie is “The Black Cat,” from 1934, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer and, according to the credits, “suggested” by Edgar Allan Poe’s story of the same title.
The suggestion, however, is so loose as to be almost irrelevant, except for the fearsome feline itself and an extreme application of Poe’s idea of the corpse concealed in the masonry.
 It’s the first film in which Bela Lugosi (already renowned thanks to the 1931 “Dracula”) and Boris Karloff (famed as Frankenstein’s monster, from the 1931 movie) appear together, and Ulmer makes shrewd, sly use of the actors’ borrowed identities to tint the action of “The Black Cat.” continue