The Black Cat
Director: Harold Hoffman Run Time: 73 min. Release Year: 1966
Starring: Pluto the Black Cat, Robert Frost, Robyn Baker, Sadie French
Shockingly, this down-and-dirty, exploitation cheapie is one of the truest big screen adaptations of Edgar Allen Poe’s classic tale of murder, paranoia, and guilt. Lou (Frost) is a clearly unstable man with violent tendencies who is haunted by a black cat that he kills after being gifted it by his bafflingly devoted girlfriend. [NH]
Content Warning: extreme simulated violence vs actual felines