Contentar Best movie of this year hands down!

CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

trashgang So many versions are already made of The Black cat and here we go again. This version has nothing to do with horror at all. This is about Edgar Allen Poe himself and the life he lived.Jeffrey Combs plays Poe and that's all excellent but I was waiting to see some horror in it. Sure, you will say, didn't you see the ax going into a head, yes I did and it did looked gruesome and yes, being captured behind a wall and yes, poking out a cat's eye, I've seen it all but somehow I wasn't attracted to the story. Maybe I was thinking to see something magical between Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs like they did earlier in another Poe story, Re-Animator (1985).Maybe it was towards the end the back and forward situations build that makes it less watchable. As a whole it could have worked out fine for a full feature but for an episode of MOH it didn't deliver on my part.

scarletminded For one, I can't see Poe hurting a cat. He wrote stories to a wanting public about things like that, didn't do them in real life. And the bird as well, who crushes a bird with their hands? I know this is supposed to be a Masters of Horror episode, but still...I feel it is uninspired. I would have rather saw a show which adapted the real Black Cat story instead of this. It is what I thought I was going to watch. Not some blend of reality and fiction, which people love to do these days and it always is lost on me.I thought the animal violence had no reason. And I felt Virginia's illness was just for gross out, when consumption wrecked the loves of Poe's life. I guess if it is a Poe story, I am OK with it but exploiting his life and persona for a gross out, makes me disrespect the director of this episode. And I don't mind gross out stuff, like the Right to Die episode, that made sense within the frame of the episode. I can't really get my head around what the writers and directors of this episode wanted to achieve. It's not really a bio, not really a story...just a mess of facts and Poe's fiction. It's badly done horror at best, hence the 3, which I give because I personally like the sepia tone look of it and the acting. I just didn't like the writing or concept of it. It seems like a mockery until the last few minutes, when you see Poe was dreaming and he is inspired to write the Black Cat because of his dreams, but it's a bit too little, too late. I will bump it up to a 4 because of the ending.Maybe it's the idea that horror authors have to be crazy people...like Poe or Lovecraft have to be these out of control characters, when in real life, they were mostly low key. And like I say, making light of consumption is sort of rude. I mean, people don't write horror stories about the grossness of having cancer, except maybe for Saw and I think the cancer thing in that respect tries to make the villain more human. If I see this episode being about the creative process, I could bump it up to 5. I like the concept of that...yet the rest of the weird mockery stuff bugs me.

MARIO GAUCI Middling entry in the erratic TV series, purporting to illustrate the conception of the much-filmed Edgar Allan Poe short story as a hallucination experienced by the famously troubled author! Given director Gordon's involvement, it features some gross-out gore: Poe's wife suffers from TB, so she is seen spurting pools of blood throughout, while at the climax he attacks the titular feline (after having gouged out one of its eyes) with an axe…but only manages to graphically split the head of his spouse – who, unfortunately, gets in the way – in two! Though it was inevitable that Gordon's frequent muse Jeffrey Combs would be assigned the leading role here, it is also remarkable how well he is made to resemble him! This episode, then, is interesting in what it tries to do and fairly stylish into the bargain (in view of the period setting) but, alas, the central plot and its twist ending have grown stale with the constant retelling!

oligarquiachacarera-1 Some directors needs to show a cat been mutilated for scare. "The black cat" is the worst episode of this series, I think is tie with "the screwfly solution" (Joe Dante), another propanga, women murder instead of animals (maybe Dante thinks a woman is an animal because of that he wants to murder them. "The black cat" shows the worst of Edgar Allan Poe (father of the suspense) and the worst of the human, kill cowardly innocent animals. If you're an animal lover don't watch this episode, besides it's not good with an empty plot, it is humiliating and shows how a poor innocent animal is mutilated, tortured and finally kill. Stuart Gordon I think you did that before, you have s h i t in your head for show this. I'm excuse for my English.