The Living Dead

Unheimliche Geschichten 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 three separate short stories, Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club, set within a story frame of a reporter's hunt for a crazy scientist. It is a black comedy revisiting many of the classic themes of the horror genre. A crazed scientist, Morder , 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 , set out to track him down. Morder eventually escapes, by pretending to be insane, into an asylum. Though here the patients has managed to free themselves, lock up the guards, and take charge . After Morder's final escape, he turns up as president of a secret Suicide Club .
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