Short Film: The Black ReCat (2024)

• Directed by Paolo Gaudio
• Written by Paolo Gaudio
• Stars Animated
• Run Time: 5:44
• Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFN8oupXXXY

What Happens

We open on Edgar, working in the basement on what is clearly a “DIY project” yes, he’s filling in a hole with bricks. There’s nothing ominous about that, right? Once in a while, he sees something spooky out of the corner of his eye. Oh, and whatever happened to the cat? 

Commentary

It’s a stop-motion, animated version of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat,” but it also incorporates themes and ideas from several of his other stories. The animation is well done, and it sounds good as well.