Expert: Popcorn Guy - 9/14/2006

Question
I am looking for the title of a certain movie with both Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff in it.
In it Boris Karloff is the heavy and Lugosi is the hero[yeah, I know, sounds like Black Cat doesn't it?].
 It starts out with Lugosi ending up at Karloff castle or mansion and finding that Karloff has turned his wife into a zombie or enchanted her someway.  Both Karloff character and Lugosi ex are rather zombie-ish in the movie.
  I don't remember ever seeing the Black Cat and from the reviews I read of it even though Karloff is the bad guy and Lugosi for a changed is the good guy, I can't tell from any of them if that is the movie I am looking for.
  In one scene Karloff and Lugosi's zombified wife are stiffy laying back on their bed to sleep and in the background music that is playing is an old contest song I use to sing...something like Rose I At Night...just the music part of it no vocal singing.
  This periodically drives me mad trying to remember what movie with Karloff and Lugosi that was.
  It's nearing Halloween time again and I am plagued by this question again.
  I have only seen it once on a Saturday Night Horror movie program that they use to have on regularly w/ mc called Count Gregore in Oklahoma City, Ok.
  Any help you can be is appreciated.  Feel free to share this w/ others if someone else might have an idea of what the name of this movie is or email me and tell me whereelse to ask this question if it is too perplexing.

   Thanks and thanks again

Answer
Hi, Ruth...

You're definitely looking for "The Black Cat." The only times the two worked together in a film were this one, "The Raven," and "The Body Snatcher," and it's definitely not "The Body Snatcher." "The Raven" has a completely different plot than what you're talking about... My guess is "The Black Cat." By the way, if you've never seen "Body Snatcher," find it ASAP... it's one of the best suspense/horror films EVER made, and it's an almost-unknown classic in America...

Hope this helps,

PCG