The Black Cat1934

Werdegast:
[about Joan's unusual cat-like behavior] It is perhaps the narcotic. I have seen it affect certain people very oddly. One cannot be sure. Sometimes, these cases take strange forms. The victim becomes in a sense, 'mediumistic,' a vehicle for all the intangible forces in operation around her.

Peter:
Sounds like a lot of supernatural baloney to me.

Werdegast:
Supernatural, perhaps - baloney, perhaps not! There are many things under the sun.

Poelzig:
I shall show you your rooms.

Peter:
It's strange about the cat. Joan seemed so curiously affected when you killed it.

Werdegast:
That was coincidence, I think. However, certain ancient books say that the Black Cat is the living embodiment of Evil. And if that Evil enters into the nearest living thing, it is...

Poelzig:
[interrupting] The Black Cat does not die. Those same books, if I'm not mistaken, teach that the Black Cat is deathless. Deathless as Evil. It is the origin of the common superstition. You know, the cat with nine lives.