Two Evil Eyes (1990)
Two horror tales based on short stories by Edgar Allan Poe directed by two famous horror directors, George A. Romero and Dario Argento.
Directors:Dario Argento, George A. Romero (as George Romero)
Writers:Dario Argento (segment), Franco Ferrini (segment)
Storyline
"The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar": The gold-digger Jessica Valdemar and her lover Dr. Robert Hoffman plot a scheme to take the money of her old and terminal husband Ernest Valdemar. Robert has hypnotized Valdemar to give his money to Jessica. Out of the blue, Valdemar dies while hypnotized and is stranded between the world of the living and the dead. Robert finds the experience fascinating and Valdemar asks him to take him out of the trance since other spirits are stalking him. However Jessica shots the corpse of Valdemar twice expecting to finish his contact with the world of the living. But soon she learns that Valdemar had been already possessed by evil forces. "The Black Cat": In Pennsylvania, the tabloid photographer Roderick Usher that explores gruesome crime scenes where Detective Legrand is investigating. Rod has been living for four years with his girlfriend Annabel, who is a violinist. When she brings a stray black cat home, Rod immediately hates the animal. Soon Rod ...Two Evil Eyes Full User Reviews
Romero fumbles, but Argento scores
Two Evil Eyes
threatened to be another disappointment from Dario Argento, especially
since the first half of this modernised Edgar Allen Poe double-header,
The Facts in the Case of Mr Valdemar, directed by George A. Romero, felt
like a competent but uninspired network TV compilation episode. So it's
a real surprise just how much dark fun Argento has with The Black Cat,
playfully riffing both on Poe's other short stories and classic movies
(there's even a subtle Psycho moment where Martin Balsam's nosey
neighbour finds himself at the foot of another staircase looking for
another missing woman) as Harvey Keitel's crime photographer - first
seen photographing the aftermath of a Pit and the Pendulum incident -
finds his life going to Hell when he gets rid of the girlfriend's cat.
It's not prime Argento, but compared to his stale
going-through-the-motions later efforts like Phantom of the Opera, The
Card Player and Phenomena, it'll remind you why you liked him in the
first place.
