The Black Cat
Despite what’s tantamount to a subgenre of macabre offerings suggesting otherwise, Edgar Allan Poe isn’t an author whose work readily lends itself to the cinematic medium.
Viy
In 1966, two Moscow film students pitched a horror feature based on a classic Slavic witch tale, Nikolai Gogol’s Viy (1833). The khudsovety (artistic committees) that evaluated film proposals in the USSR scowled at the genre as catering to base instincts and superstition.