Unheimliche Geschichten (1932)

Directed by

Richard Oswald

Genre

comedy film, horror film

Country

Germany

Runtime

1h 29m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A reporter searches for a mad scientist, and his investigation leads into three linked horror tales based on famous stories. It is a black comedy that mixes gothic scares with a light, mocking tone.

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What happens

Unheimliche Geschichten (lit. Uncanny Stories), titled The Living Dead in English, is a 1932 German comedy horror film, directed by Richard Oswald, starring Paul Wegener, and produced by Gabriel Pascal. It is a remake of Oswald's 1919 film of the same name. The story is a merging of three separate short stories, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club, set within a frame story of a reporter's hunt for a mad scientist. It is a black comedy revisiting many of the classic themes of the horror genre. It was Paul Wegener's first talking movie. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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