Invisible Ray 05/19 Blu-ray (Rental)

Four-disc set includes: The Black Cat (1934) Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi teamed up for the first time in director Edgar G. Ulmer's macabre Pre-code chiller that borrows the title (and little else) from Edgar Allan Poe. A Balkan castle, built over a WWI graveyard, is the site for a bizarre battle of wills between psychiatrist Dr. Vitus Werdegast (Lugosi) and devil-worshipping cult leader Hjalmar Poelzig (Karloff). With David Manners, Julie Bishop. 65 min. BW/Rtg: NR The Raven (1935) Grand exercise in terror and suspense stars Bela Lugosi as Dr. Richard Vollin, a plastic surgeon obsessed with the works of Poe and a beautiful patient (Irene Ware) who spurns his advances. Vollin invites the woman, her fiancé, and her father to his retreat and, with the aid of a criminal (Boris Karloff), he disfigured, imprisons, and tortures them. With Irene Ware, Samuel Hinds. 62 min. BW/Rtg: NR The