4 pajama suits out of 5This classic horror film harkens from a simpler time, when people were classier, and movie soundtracks didn't include hip-hop. The Black Cat is about two young lovers who find themselves trapped in a struggle between good and evil. When their hilariously old timey bus flips over, the young couple, along with a mysterious dark stranger and his servant, find themselves in the house of a super creepy looking satanist who built his house on the site of a bloody World War One battle just because he's THAT brutal. This movie was certainly a classic, the characters are deep and interesting, and there's plot twists every five minute. Every dude in The Black Cat wears suits everywhere and fights old timey style...by wrestling and trying to dramatically strangle each other with their bare hands. One comical aspect relating to when this film was made is how all the chicks in the movie keep screaming and fainting whenever something scary happens. More funny still is how one of the main characters, Dr. Vitus Werdegast, a big, brooding, not-taking-nothing-from-nobody dude has a "Intense and absolute all consuming horror....of cats!" Werdegast looses his shit every time he sees a little kitty cat, and hes always breaking stuff in his fits of terror. I enjoyed this movie because even though it is super old, its totally about Satan and the supernatural, which must have been pretty controversial at the time.
