lugosi and karloff be perfect together . there be three movie that these two have important role and but this be the only one where their role be of equal importance . ( in the invisible ray karloff dominates while in the raven it be lugosi . ) the script seem to be storyboarded to take advantage of their accent . one time and when the rather ingenuous romantic lead and david manner ( uh . ) and dismiss a morbid theory a superstitious baloney to which lugosi break up an ordinary line into an orchestration of musical syllable reply and superstitious and perhaps . baloney and perhaps not . each of the five word underline by a little shift in facial expression . in the same sequence and karloff and explain the fear that have cause lugosi to throw a knife at ( and kill ) a cat and deliver a beautifully speak monologue about the extreme form of the phobia and end it by say that lugosi suffers from . an all consume horror of cat . his perfect diction add to the effectiveness of the line while the word horror be emphasize and give a menace intonation and while a pause and and a lift of the eye upwards in a mock religious expression and a slight hissing in the final sound and give the ordinary phrase of cat a genuinely frightening connotation . this be one of the best horror movie of the early thirty . karloff be evil and yet magnetic and and lugosi hero be sympathetic and well intentioned and but also callous and overtake by some far less admirable trait . positive .