The Black Cat (1934)

The Black Cat (1934) poster
Rating: ★★★½
Revenge and Satanism

This has nothing whatsoever to do with the Edgar Allan Poe story but is a fascinating piece with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi skulking about engaged in a twisted plot involving revenge, Satanism and chess games played for human lives

Death Takes a Holiday (1934)

Death Takes a Holiday (1934) poster
Rating: ★★★
Death Takes on Human Form

Classic fantasy film in which Death takes human form to visit a party and experience the human condition. Frederic March gives us Death as a comically eccentric outsider and the film has some great moments of imagination

Gold (1934)

Gold (1986) poster
Rating: ★★
Discovery of a Process to Turn Lead Into Gold

A work from the great era of German Expressionism. This concerns an engineering process that can turn lead to gold and contains some amazing effects, as well as Brigitte Helm from Metropolis as a seductress

The Secret of the Loch (1934)

The Secret of the Loch (1934) poster
Rating: ★★
Loch Ness Monster Film

The very first film appearance of the Loch Ness Monster. A hardly auspicious debut, this came before there was such a thing as the monster movie and is played mostly as a comedy. We do eventually get an appearance of the Loch Ness Monster right at the very end