The Living Dead

Unheimliche Geschichten (Uncanny Stories) is a 1932 German horror/black comedy film directed by the prolific Austrian film director Richard Oswald, starring Paul Wegener, and produced by Gabriel Pascal. The story is a merging of Edgar Allan Poe's "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" and "The Black Cat" with Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club, producing a black comedy revisiting many of the classic themes of the horror genre. A ... more

Unheimliche Geschichten (Uncanny Stories) is a 1932 German horror/black comedy film directed by the prolific Austrian film director Richard Oswald, starring Paul Wegener, and produced by Gabriel Pascal. The story is a merging of Edgar Allan Poe's "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" and "The Black Cat" with Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club, producing a black comedy revisiting many of the classic themes of the horror genre. 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, Briggs (Harald Paulsen), set out to track him down. Finally captured by the police, Morder is sent to an insane asylum. Morder then manages to free himself, lock up the guards, and release all the inmates, while he takes charge of the asylum (inspired by Poe's The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether). In command of things, Morder turns the... less