Unheimliche Geschichten
Unheimliche Geschichten ( Uncanny Stories), titled The Living Dead in English, is a 1932 German comedy horror 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, à 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.
More details
| author | Heinz Goldberg |
|---|---|
| director | Richard Oswald |
| editor | Friedel Buckow Max Brenner |
| genre | comedy horror |
| keywords | black cat insane asylum nagging wife short story wife murder |
| musicBy | Rolf Marbot |
| producer | G. Pasqual Richard Oswald |
| theme | animals black comedy comedy horror mad scientist |