The Black Cat (1981)

Robert Miles (Patrick Magee) is a psychic who has the ability to control the mind of his black cat to take vengeance upon his enemies. But, as we all know, cats control humans not the other way around. Soon the cat uses Robert Miles to get revenge on him instead.

Lucio Fulci's film bears very little relation to Edgar Allan Poe's original story apart from the final walled-in scene.

The Black Cat (1941)

Elderly Henrietta Winslow (Cecilia Loftus) lives in an isolated mansion with her housekeeper and beloved cats. As her health fails, her greedy relatives gather in anticipation of her death. Little do they know that a black cat is watching their every move.

Demons 6: De Profundis (1989)

Levana

Also known as "The Black Cat" (or "Il Gatto Nero" in the original Italian), this movie was supposed to be an unofficial completion of Dario Argento's witch trilogy. Although Luigi Cozzi's story has precious little to do with either Dario Argento or Edgar Allan Poe, at least there is actually a black cat in it.

Masters of Horror: The Black Cat (2006)

Pluto

This new version of "The Black Cat", set in 1840's Philadelphia, has the writer Edgar Allan Poe (Jeffrey Combs), struggling with alcoholism, writers block, as well as being out of ideas, short on cash, and tormented by his wife's black cat that will either destroy his life or inspire him to write one of his most famous stories.

Obviously coupling director Stuart "Re-Animator" Gordon with Jeffrey Combs leads to much horrific cruelty inflicted on Pluto. It turns out to all be a dream though and Pluto is fully intact at the end.

The Black Cat (1934)

Apart from cat-phobic Dr. Vitus Werdegast (Bela Lugosi) throwing a scalpel at the black cat of the title (which seems to kill it at one point), the movie has nothing really to do with the Edgar Allan Poe story.

Satan-worshipping Hjalmar Poelzig (Boris Karloff) pontificates about the myths of black cats being immortal and carries the cat around quite a lot. Finally, the cat is put outside for the night along with any interest the rest of this horribly dated film has to offer anybody.