- This is a very interesting house you have here. Has an atmosphere, kind of, uh...
- It is indeed hard to describe. As hard to describe as life or, or death. It may well be an atmosphere of death.

— Dr. Vitus Werdegast (Bela Lugosi)

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17 seconds sound clip from the The Black Cat (1934) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:16:29.915 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- I traced the two of you there, and to Spain and to South America, and finally here.

- Where is she?

- Vitus, you are mad.

- Where is she? (2)

- Sorry if I'm intruding.

- Not at all. Do come in, we were just going to have something to drink. Now perhaps you will join us? And what would you like?

- Oh, uh, whiskey.

- Whiskey.

- This is a very interesting house you have here. Has an atmosphere, kind of, uh...

- It is indeed hard to describe. As hard to describe as life or, or death. It may well be an atmosphere of death.

- This place was built on the ruins of that same Fort Marmorus that our unfortunate friend, the driver, described so vividly.

- Herr Poelzig commanded Marmorus during the last years of the war.

- He is perhaps sentimental about this spot.

- And as for the house being interesting, an architectural chef-d'oeuvre, it could not be otherwise.

- Engineer Poelzig is one of Austria's greatest architects.

[...]

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Actors: Boris Karloff (Hjalmar Poelzig), Bela Lugosi (Dr. Vitus Werdegast), Julie Bishop (Joan Alison),

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