Unheimliche Geschichten
Unheimliche Geschichten ( Uncanny Stories), titled The Living Dead in English, is a 1932 German horror/comedy film directed by the film director Richard Oswald, starring Paul Wegener, and produced by Gabriel Pascal. It is a remake of Oswald's 1919 film of the same name.
Plot
A crazed scientist, Morder (Paul Wegener), driven even crazier by his nagging wife, murders her and walls her up in a basement, a la Poe's "The Black Cat". He then flees as the police and a reporter, Frank Briggs (Harald Paulsen), set out to track him down. Morder eventually escapes, by pretending to be insane, into an asylum. Here, the patients have managed to free themselves, lock up the guards, and take charge (inspired by Poe's "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether"). After Morder's final escape, he turns up as president of a secret Suicide Club (based on the short story by Stevenson).
More details
| author | Heinz Goldberg |
|---|---|
| director | Richard Oswald |
| editor | Friedel Buckow Max Brenner |
| genre | comedy horror |
| keywords | black cat nagging wife short story wife murder |
| musicBy | Rolf Marbot |
| theme | animals black comedy comedy horror |