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Talented horror veterans George Romero and Dario Argento each contribute an adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe story to the feature-length “Two Evil Eyes.’’

Romero’s work ‘The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar’ tells the story of Jessica Valdemar (Adrienne Barbeau), who, with the help of her lover, a doctor (Ramy Zada), is hypnotizing her much older husband in order to force him to sign all his money over to her before he dies. Disaster strikes, however, when Valdemar dies whilst hypnotized. The result is that he is trapped between two realities, acting as a portal of sorts for the living dead to enter our world.

Argento’s story, ‘The Black Cat’, follows Rod Usher (Harvey Keitel) a crime scene photographer who takes a slightly unhealthy interest in death. All seems fine until his girlfriend Annabel (Madeleine Potter) brings home a stray black cat. The cat continues to get on Usher’s nerves until he strangles it, and eventually kills Annabel as well. The black cat keeps showing up, however, no matter how many.

Two Evil Eyes hits DVD on March 17th courtesy of the good folks at Arrow Films.

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