text: In 1976, British filmmaker Peter de Rome made a loose adaptation of the story with his second and final feature, The Destroying Angel, a hybrid of horror movie and gay porn film, produced by New York studio Hand in Hand Films. The film is about a man on sabbatical from seminary who experiences inner conflict between his sexual desires and his call to the cloth, which is made manifest through the appearances of his doppelgänger. The stabbing scene in Poe's story is the one moment that is directly paralleled in the film. Peter de Rome said he was inspired to make this film when he saw a portrait of Poe and realized that Poe was, essentially, visually his own doppelganger.
  In 1979, Ediciones de la Urraca in Argentina published a comic adaptation in El Péndulo #2 (October 1979). Adaptation was by Guillermo Saccomanno, art was by Alberto Breccia.  This was reprinted by Les Humanoïdes Associés in France in Le Cœur révélateur (1992 and September 1995) and by Doedyeeditores in Argentina in El gato negro y otras historias (2011).
  In 1979, Bloch Editores S.A. in Brazil published a comic adaptation in Aventuras Macabras #12 (1979). The adaptation and art were by José Menezes.
  In 1999, Spanish director Jorge Dayas released a 35 mm animated short film, awarded in Animadrid 2000 and Málaga Film Festival.