The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1934)

This is one of my all time favourite horror films. Karloff is the star of the show. I mean, I love Bela Lugosi, but Karloff is so creepy in this. It deals with some pretty unusual themes considering when it was made: necrophilia, torture, black mass, human sacrifice. It's pretty out there considering it was made in the 1930s. I remember watching this about 15 years ago on TV and then it was impossible to find on DVD anywhere, you just couldn't get it. I think they finally released it a couple of years ago. It has that expressionist feel to it. The sets and everything are really bizarre and the music runs through the whole film non-stop. More recently I've been getting into the expressionist film stuff. Things like Das Kabinet and Nosferatu. Its good to watch a lot of the original classic horror.