The Black Cat opens across the U.S. in 1934. The pre-code horror film stars Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in the first of eight films together, and is an early psychological horror film featuring necrophilia, torture, drug use, and a Satanic mass, with almost no relation to Edgar Allan Poe’s classic story.
This Day in Halloween: Pre-code horror film "The Black Cat" -- starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi -- opens across the U.S. in 1934. / Illustration by Amelia Stebbing