1932 - MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE, horror film looks great, has great atmosphere and is nice and short.

Short and sweet.  The Poe story is fleshed out even in this short film.  Lugosi still struggles to act playing a mad scientist doing some sort of god knows what,  weird experiments with and ape and women.

Weird lighting, strange sets and a guy running around in a gorilla suit, what more can you ask for?

The director was Robert Florey, who was an assistant to Chaplin and Von Sternberg, he was also a noted experimental filmmaker during the 1930's.  The cameraman was Karl Freund who had shot Metropolis and The Last Laugh.  The film certainly looks cool.

Well worth a look.

61 minutes.