# Event Details

- **Event Name**: HALLOWEEN POE-A-THON: Karloff and Lugosi face off in The Black Cat (1934) w/ The Tell-Tale Heart
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 31 Oct, 2026 at 03:15 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: “This bizarre, utterly irrational masterpiece has images that bury themselves in the mind” – The Guardian

Horror icons Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi teamed up—and faced off—for the first time in director Edgar G. Ulmer’s macabre Pre-code chiller The Black Cat, which borrows its title (and admittedly not a whole lot else) from Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of terror. Anticipating Rocky Horror by four decades, the film spins a tale of American honeymooners, Joan and Peter Allison, held captive in a creepy mansion against their will. But instead of a transsexual Transylvanian, here it’s Black Mass high priest Hjalmar Poelzig (Karloff), who has chosen Joan to be the Devil’s bride. Lugosi co-stars as Poelzig’s frenemy, psychiatrist Dr. Vitus Werdegast, in this singular Universal chiller that features necrophilia, ailurophobia (Lugosi collapses at the sight of a cat), drugs, a deadly game of chess, torture, flaying, and a human sacrifice.

This program also includes the 1941 short, The Tell-Tale Heart. The directorial debut of legendary auteur Jules Dassin (Night and the City, Rififi), this 20-minute scorcher is “positively a-swill in Orson Wellesian tropes: the crouching camera, the chiaroscuro lighting, the mood-deepening use of silences and sound effects” (Richard Corliss).

The full program runs approximately runs approximately 86 minutes.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/southhampton/halloween-poe-a-thon-karloff-and-lugosi-face-off-in-the-black-cat-1934-w-the-tell-tale-heart/200030778650048
- **Event Categories**: entertainment, rocky-horror-picture-show
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 8

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Southhampton
- **state**: MO
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Arkadin Cinema & Bar
- **lat**: 38.57936
- **long**: -90.26918
- **full address**: Arkadin Cinema & Bar, 5228 Gravois Ave, St Louis, MO 63116-2310, United States, Southhampton

## Event gallery

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is HALLOWEEN POE-A-THON: Karloff and Lugosi face off in The Black Cat (1934) w/ The Tell-Tale Heart being held?
  - **A:** HALLOWEEN POE-A-THON: Karloff and Lugosi face off in The Black Cat (1934) w/ The Tell-Tale Heart takes place on Sat, 31 Oct, 2026 at 03:15 pm to Sat, 31 Oct, 2026 at 03:15 pm at Arkadin Cinema & Bar, 5228 Gravois Ave, St Louis, MO 63116-2310, United States, Southhampton.
- **Q**: Who is organizing HALLOWEEN POE-A-THON: Karloff and Lugosi face off in The Black Cat (1934) w/ The Tell-Tale Heart?
  - **A:** HALLOWEEN POE-A-THON: Karloff and Lugosi face off in The Black Cat (1934) w/ The Tell-Tale Heart is organized by Arkadin Cinema & Bar.

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