This Loose Edgar Allan Poe Retelling From One of Horror’s Most Unique Creative Minds Just Landed on Shudder
Lucio Fulci's adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat is a unique take on the classic story, full of the director's trademark style.
The beginning of the '80s was a great time for the horror genre in general, and 1981 in particular was very productive for one iconic master of the genre — the Italian Godfather of Gore, Lucio Fulci. That year gave us some of his best works, such as The Beyond and The House by the Cemetery. The Black Cat, which was released at the same time, is often overlooked in favor of the above-mentioned surrealist gore feasts, and it's frequently criticized for what Fulci is usually reprimanded for: a plot that's not coherent enough and too much focus on graphic depictions of violence. In reality, not only is The Black Cat one of Fulci's trademark works where he gets to explore his favorite topic — the evil inside humans, which makes the world around them an inherently dreadful, terrifying place — but it is also his love letter to the horror genre that adapts a classic Edgar Allan Poe story.
