Two Evil Eyes

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar

• Adrienne Barbeau: Jessica Valdemar
• Ramy Zada: Dr. Robert Hoffman
• Bingo O'Malley: Ernest Valdemar

The Black Cat

• Harvey Keitel: Roderick Usher
• Madeleine Potter: Annabel
• John Amos: Det Legrand

Two Evil Eyes ( Original title: Due occhi diabolici ) is an Italian and American horror film directed by Dario Argento and George A. Romero 's 1990 The film is designed as episodic film, whose episodes loosely on short stories by Edgar Allan Poe based. . Romero segment is based on the short story The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar ( German Title: The facts in the case Waldemar ) and Argento on The Black Cat ( German title: The Black Cat ).

Action

Criticism

" The relocation of both episodes in the present time deprives the routine horror fare directed its evocative atmosphere. "

" [ ... ] As the two genre greats Romero and Argento do together again, and what comes out this time: a content middling, grand in its Gore- scenes film, which ultimately breaks rather disappointed as the stool. [ ... ] "

Production

Tom Savini was hired for the special effects and plays a brief role in the episode The Black Cat as a serial killer, in which it resembles by the makeup Edgar Allan Poe.

Awards

The film was nominated for the 1993 Saturn Award for Best Genre Video Release category.