Genre: Horror, Animals, Suspense, Serial Killer, Murder, Police, Infidelity, Law, Revenge, Investigation, Ghosts, Zombie, Deception
Tagline: When I Wake You...You'll Be Dead.
Plot: In Romero’s The Facts In The Case Of Mr. Valdemar, a conniving wife (Adrienne Barbeau) and her lover use a hypnotic trance to embezzle a fortune from her dying husband, only to receive some chilling surprises from beyond the grave.Then in Argento’s The Black Cat, a deranged crime scene photographer (Harvey Keitel) is driven to brutal acts of madness and murder by his girlfriend’s new pet. But will this cunning feline deliver a final sickening twist of its own? George A. Romero (NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD) and Dario Argento (SUSPIRIA) each try their hand at a tale by Edgar Allan Poe in this feature comprising two hour-long segments. In Romero’s THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF MR. VALDEMAR, Adrienne Barbeau is Jessica Valdemar, a former stewardess who marries an old man for his money. Through hypnosis, her ex-lover Robert tries to get Valdemar to sign his money over to Jessica, but when Valdemar dies in the process, caught between the dead and the living, Robert and Jessica find themselves in a situation from which they cannot escape. Argento transposes THE BLACK CAT to the present, with Harvey Keitel as Rod Usher, a crime scene photographer whose flighty girlfriend, Annabel, has a cat he despises. Usher kills the cat, telling Annabel that it’s gone missing. Through a chain of events
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 In the end both stories were rather predictable, but entertaining none-the-less... A decent rent. Has two stories that are rather slow, but interesting. Creepy in parts, but predictable. 6/10--FrighT MasteR (UHM)
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 | Kim Hunter
Planet of the Apes, A Streetcar Named Desire, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
 | Julie Benz
Jawbreaker, Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth, Inventing the Abbotts |
 | Ramy Zada
Funny About Love, After Midnight, The Judas Project | | |
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