The victim becomes, in a sense, mediumistic, a vehicle for all the intangible forces in operation around her.
7 seconds sound clip from the The Black Cat (1934) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:20:57.558 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
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- I gave her a very powerful narcotic, I'm sure it will be effective soon.
- What curious changes it made in her. You must have noticed it?
- It is perhaps the narcotic. Hyoscine affects certain people very oddly. One cannot be sure.
- Sometimes these cases take strange forms.
- It sounds like a lot of supernatural baloney to me.
- Supernatural, perhaps. Baloney, perhaps not.
- There are many things under the sun.
- I shall show you your rooms.
- Strange about the cat. Joan seemed so curiously affected when you killed it.
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