31 Days of Halloween: The Black Cat (1981)

Take an Edgar Allan Poe story. Give it to two different Italian directors who came up in the 1960s and truly made their mark in the 70s. Tell them they have to use the same basic ending and motifs but can otherwise do whatever they want with it. What do you get?

Well, in Sergio Martino's hands you got 1972's Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, a part-giallo/part-sexploitation thriller which entertains through its own willingness to constantly reinvent itself. Offer the same challenge to the far more iconic Lucio Fulci and the result is ...