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An avant-garde series based on the classic works of Edgar Allan Poe.
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The story of a melancholic man, grieving the loss of his beautiful love, dreaming, yearning to be with her once again, only to meet the antithesis of his dreams in the form of a grim raven.
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A young artist, imprisoned within the trammels of opium addiction, relives his phantasmagorical courtship with a mysterious Soprano known only as Ligeia. While exploring these opium induced memories, the lines dividing reality and fantasy, memory and hallucination, begin to blur into an indecipherable labyrinth of obsession and despair. Though he is nursed back to health by a new love, the Lady Rowena, the haunting of Ligeia's memories as well as the spirits of Azrael and Nehushtan, continue to plague his mind and soul.
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Hollywood Graveyard host Arthur Dark takes a journey into madness and mournful memory through the mind of Edgar Allan Poe, while visiting his gravesite.
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A young man caring for his terminally ill father gets pulled into a maelstrom of murder, madness and the macabre. Based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
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Edith has been beset by vivid hallucinations that only end when she begins spying on her next door neighbor.
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A modern reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe's classic poem "The Raven."
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An updated re-telling based in the Gothic South with the Usher Family, led by Mother. The family has been cursed by madness, unrequited love and when Roderick comes home with his girlfriend Morgan, it spells the beginning of the end as her sister Madeline will stop at nothing to prevent their marriage as Morgan fights to take Roderick away from the madness that is the House of Usher.
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Two brothers are caught by storm and they are drifted to the greatest whirpool on the world. Due to circumstances they will be forced to fight each other for life and death.
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In the story of a mere moment, “Shadow” peeks into the room where seven spirits toast one another while a gruesome plague ravishes the streets beyond their fastened brass door. Edgar Allan Poe-inspired experimental video shot remotely during Covid lockdown.
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Based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem "Bridal Ballad". A lady's first husband dies in combat. She gets remarried but is fearful that having done so will come back to haunt her.
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Adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's original text, this original psychological thriller story has been re-imagined in this mind-bending, pulse-pounding, bloody-disgusting short film
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A young woman struggles to keep a hold on reality, as her sanity begins to fragment.
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This chilling film places Edgar Allan Poe’s iconic gothic horror story in the imagination of a migrant child as she journeys into the United States. Experience the world of the Ushers through her eyes, as she reaches for the promise of the American Dream.
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An Experimental COVID-19 Dogma Film, Inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's Story
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A dark retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's unfinished story: The Lighthouse.
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A young couple flee to the coast to await a boat that will take them on to a new life. As they wait, dark forces close in and their plan starts to unravel. Based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe and set in the aftermath of the war, under the long lingering shadow of the Irish-Anglo conflict, ‘Annabel Lee’ is a tale of a forbidden love between two young stowaways from opposite sides of the Irish sea. As the couple run for their lives, they make it as far as a a cottage in Devon, awaiting rescue to take them to France. With the end of their journey in sight, they finally allow themselves to believe they might have made it.
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Disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau
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A writer in self-exile is haunted by the memory of his long-lost love. Mysterious events and an unexpected visitor are about to offer him a chance to relieve his pain. Based on the famous poem of Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven.
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A man takes care of another man. One is young, the other is old. The young man is mad, the old man is a victim. When evil lives inside of you, the whole world won’t let you sleep.
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A modern day retelling of the classic poem "The Raven" written by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Matthew and Franklin are on a weekend bar crawl when Matthew uncovers a fateful lie.
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The sarcastic account of the assassination of five Spanish politicians between 1870 and 1973 is mixed with the narration of five short stories by Edgar Allan Poe illustrated by five skillful pencil artists. A bastard documentary, a video essay, a collage, a provocative experiment where various pop culture figures and icons perform unexpected cameos. The macabre joke of a jester. Never more.
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Go back to the place where it all began, in the midst of a dreary night -- the kind the ghosts of our past (that come back to haunt us) find irresistible. Relive this poetic, frightening, and sad tale of love and soul forever lost in a charming, new light.
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Santa is making his rounds on Christmas eve but his intentions are pretty selfish, and nothing goes as anticipated. - Just cause you're paranoid, doesn't mean no one is after you. A little tale inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart."
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Historia de un hombre que asesina a un hombre viejo y luego esconde su cuerpo debajo de su piso sólo para ser conducido a la locura por el sonido de su corazón aún latiendo.
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Un joven despierta solo en una playa remota, abandonado allí por una violenta tormenta. Por encima de los riscos rocosos, un faro se alza como un centinela. Herido y sufriendo de amnesia, el hombre encuentra la ayuda de Walsh, el farero enigmático. Walsh le dice que esta varado hasta que el ferry llegue en dos semanas e insiste en que son los únicos habitantes de la península. Mientras tanto el hombre es perseguido por visiones fugaces de una hermosa joven, y plagado de visiones de horribles sobre fantasmas que llegan desde las profundidades. Debe enfrentarse a los habitantes grotescos de la noche o prestar atención a la advertencia críptica del farero: "Mantener siempre una luz encendida!"
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Edgar Allan Poe's macabre masterpiece of murder and madness, re-imagined as a modern day revenge thriller.
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'Berenice', a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, follows a man named Egaeus who is preparing to marry his cousin Berenice. Berenice begins to deteriorate from an unnamed disease until the only part of her remaining healthy is her teeth, which Egaeus begins to obsess over. Berenice is buried, and Egaeus continues to contemplate her teeth...
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Adaptación del relato de Edgar Allan Poe titulado "El sistema del Dr. Tarr y el profesor Fether". Sturgess interpreta al estudiante de medicina de Harvard que en la historia de Poe se adentra en el manicomio sin saber el cambio de papeles que ha habido en la institución. En el film se cruzará y enamorará de una joven que está encerrada bajo unas circunstancias que no son lo que parecen.
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In this chilling and lyrical reinterpretation of Edgar Allan Poe's poem, a narrator mourning the loss of his love, Lenore, wavers on the brink of insanity. Perhaps hallucinating - or not - he sees a mysterious raven, whispering, 'nevermore.'
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Deep beneath the streets of Italy lie the catacombs of the Montresors, filled with barrels of wine and the bones of the dead. One evening, friends Fortunado and Montresor venture below the city with promises of the rare vintage wine Amontillado.
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Wealthy winemaker Jonathan Bragg hires Tuscan wine detective to discover the source of a mysterious bottle of wine.
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A short film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Cask of Amontillado," in which a man recounts taking revenge upon an old friend by using the lure of a rare wine. It is a dark thriller exploring the shift in power between friends.
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Based on the classic works of Edgar Allan Poe, directors Bart Mastronardi & Alan Rowe Kelly have assembled an award-winning cast and crew for the highly anticipated film TALES OF POE. A unique new spin on three of Poe's popular stories (The Tell Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado & Dreams), Mastronardi & Kelly weave together a compelling & suspenseful anthology that will captivate Poe enthusiasts & horror fans alike!
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A bar and a slaughterhouse next to a road in the middle of nowhere. It is barely a month since Edu went to live there with Manolo, the owner. Edu tries to adapt to his new life but there is something that keeps him awake all night long.
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Largometraje dividido en varias historias basadas en obras del maestro Edgard Allan Poe. Cada uno de los cortos, o capítulos, está realizado con una técnica diferente, pero sin abandonar el aspecto pictórico o de ilustración que quiere conservar el director. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Narrated by Sir Christopher Lee as Roderick Usher summons his boyhood friend to help him ease his decaying condition. The death of Madeline Usher, last in the line of the Usher family precipitates Roderick's descent into madness and death.
The Fall Of The House Of Usher is a part of 'Extraordinary Tales' - an animated anthology of five tales adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's stories.
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The horrifying 150-year-old mystery of Edgar Allan Poe's perverse masterpiece--solved at last! Legendary detective C. Auguste Dupin matches wits with mastermind Prisoner X. After several brutal crimes have been committed, Dupin must reveal whether the perpetrator is an insane victim of the supernatural--or a psychotic genius. Elegant visuals and haunting melodies intertwine to breathe new life into an eerie tale of rotting flesh.
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An introspective journey in the mind of the protagonist, the film explores the themes of perception, influence, madness, and obsession. A man meets a mysterious woman and remains inexplicably fascinated by her. Adoration turns into an obsession to the point that the woman will remain an obsessive presence in the man's life even after death. Based on the novel by E. A. Poe.
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Durante las vacaciones de primavera, una fraternidad construida sobre las ruinas quemadas de un manicomio es perseguida por un visitante siniestro ...
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A man murders his elderly neighbour and is haunted by his relentless heartbeat.
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It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me . . . ." And so begins one of the most famous and haunting poems from the enigmatic mind of one of literature's most prolific dark poets, Edgar Allan Poe. This chilling classic adapted for a 21st-century audience. EDGAR ALLAN POE'S 'ANNABEL LEE' tells the story of Jack Blythe, an artist who rents a summer house in a quiet beach town to find creative inspiration. He gets more than he bargained for when he meets a beautiful but hauntingly mysterious woman who offers to be his subject for a painting. When Jack discovers that his seductive stranger resembles a woman presumed dead for 18 years, he becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth. Soon, Jack is caught up in a terrifying struggle that will unravel an unsolvable mystery and reveal a horrific secret
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The short is another adaptation of E.A.Poe's infamous tale and follows the descent into madness for the meticulous butler Manfred, whose sole focus in life is the care and comfort of his Master. When perfectionism turns into obsession, he pleads for understanding that he acts not out of madness, but through his most grievous fault. The story of redemption leads into the depths of a troubled soul for whom madness is just a matter of perspective.
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Un joven profesor, es seguido por una joven llamada Ligeia. Aunque se está muriendo parece no estar preocupada, lleva varios años reviviendo ocupando el cuerpo de otras mujeres haciendo ocupar su alma el lugar correspondiente al de las primeras... Adaptación de la historia corta "Ligeia", escrita por Edgar Allan Poe, adaptada para la gran pantalla por el guionista de "El cuervo"
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1873, Quito, Ecuador. One of the most recognized psychiatrists of the city, Mr. Romero, is experimenting new hypnosis techniques as a healing tool with his patients, finding out that hypnosis has never been tested in a dying human being. Romero wonders if this technique could stop or delay death in dying patients. Valdemar, a Brazilian diplomatic who suffers tuberculosis, is willing to collaborate with Romero and agrees to be hypnotized the night he is supposed to die. The experiment will have dramatic consequences, Romero will be accused of Satanism and sentenced to death by the Ecuadorian president. His only chance of survival, is to persuade the presidents' secretary that he is innocent. He has only one chance to tell the truth.
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Seven students answer an advertisement to participate in an experiment to explore how the sensation of pain can be eliminated. Arriving at a secluded institute, they are welcomed by mysterious scientist JB Divay. Initially, JB's fascination with hypnosis, clocks and cactus plants are dismissed by the group as mere eccentricities. But as the students begin to disappear one by one, they begin to question JB's true intentions.
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Adaptación contemporánea del relato de Poe "El corazón delator", se centra en un padre soltero (Josh Lucas) cuyo corazón ha sido trasplantado recientemente, hecho que lo conduce a una búsqueda frenética del asesino del donante antes de que un destino similar se cierna sobre él.
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Within the chambers of a desolate house, a solitary servant tends to his invalid master. Tangibly detailed period design and hauntingly lifelike puppetry unearth the dreamworld of Poe.
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On a fateful day in the park, a lonely man meets Morella, a beautiful yet singularly bewitching woman. And from their first meeting, their souls become inseparable, their lives bound together forever. Morella is a woman of great intelligence and powers of the mind, she spends her days studying the occult and reading to the man from her collection of ancient texts. Given his devotion to his wife, the man abandons himself completely to her, as their life of seclusion and obsession grows darker with each passing day. Joy fades into the deepest horror as Morella's cold, distant nature and ghostly musical voice oppress the man until he can no longer bear the touch of her fingers, nor the luster of her melancholy eyes.
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Victor Reynolds arrives at the notorious House of Usher, whereupon he is greeted by old acquaintances Roderick and Madeline Usher and their servant, Markus. As Victor uncovers more about the history of the house and the disappearances of those that entered it previously, he begins to realize that he is in mortal danger.
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The short movie tells the well known story by E.A.Poe about a murderer, who tries to persuade the readers/audience of his mental stability, while telling the tale of the brutish act of killing an old man. He denies that he suffers from mental illness and openly boasts of his cleverness and cunning behavior. He kills the man though he loves him, holds no grudges against him and murders without any motive. The movie works heavily with green screen and computer coloration to achieve interesting special effects with the real life actors and the environment.
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In this update to Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale, it's time for the biggest gay party of the year. Unfortunately, the host has chosen the site of the infamous Ravenswood Massacre to stage his blowout gala, where a mass murder happened fifty years ago to the night. The boozie revelry is cut short when a Raven-masked killer crashes the party, intent on repeating the bloody history. As the unknown killer picks the guests off, old grudges resurface among friends, and new suspicions emerge.
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The Black Cat, ambientado en 1840 en Filadelfia, tiene al gran escritor Edgar Allan Poe, que lucha contra el alcoholismo, bloquea a los escritores, se queda sin ideas, tiene poco dinero y está atormentado por el gato negro de su esposa Virginia que destruirá su vida. o inspirarlo a escribir una de sus historias más famosas.
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Inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Tell-Tale Heart," this is the story of Ed, a middle-aged nervous-laughing insane man who lives in his family manor, and of his plans to murder his elderly demented father and dispose of the corpse.
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Follows seven characters playing the embodiment of the seven deadly sins.
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Tras asistir al funeral de su madre, Jean Barlot emprende un viaje y se detiene a pasar la noche en una pensión. Durante el sueño causa destrozos en la habitación. A la mañana siguiente, averigua que un extraño marqués que se hospeda allí ha pagado los desperfectos y que, además, lo invita a pasar la noche en su castillo. Barlot acepta la invitación, pero sus fuertes convicciones morales y religiosas sufrirán un fuerte impacto al espíar al marqués y a sus amigos.
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A stark black-and-white adaption of Edgar Allen Poe’s story by a veteran animator long associated with Disney.
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Adaptation of a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, it tells the story of a man who becomes obsessed with his neighbor's eye, to the point where it leads to deadly consequences.
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A man lamenting his late love Lenore is tormented by the noises made by a raven, which he imagines is mocking his grief, illustrating a dramatic reading of Poe's poem.
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In the span of five years, pioneering director D.W. Griffith delivered some 450 films for the Biograph Company at a rate of two or three films per week. One and two reels in length, these works showed the filmmaker inventing, borrowing, and perfecting techniques he later used to memorable effect in "The Birth of a Nation," "Intolerance," "Way Down East" and "Orphans of the Storm." Including Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Mary Pickford, Mack Sennett, Lionel Barrymore, Henry Walthall, and Mae Marsh. Among the 22 titles included on this landmark release are such widely recognized masterworks as "The Musketeers of Pig Alley," "The Battle at Elderbush Gulch," "The New York Hat," and "A Corner in Wheat."
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Writer Truman Jones travels to the home of old, eccentric poet Roderick Usher in his quest for wisdom from the aging poet.
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An anthropologist investigates the origins of human evolution. She had suffered a mental trauma during her childhood when her father, a submarine captain, died during the war. This trauma periodically destabilizes her condition. The ghosts of a prehistoric past and a violent death collide in the subconsciousness of the scientist to give birth to an unexpected theory of the origins of human beings.
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Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this film tells the grimly comic tale of a bad-tempered old man (Howard Hesseman) who cheats death, only to go on tormenting the living. When a medical experiment leaves the grouch hovering between life and death (and able to describe the world beyond), things get tricky for his daughter (Jessica Capshaw) and her beau (Neil Patrick Harris, of "Doogie Howser, M.D." fame), who can't get their hands on his estate.
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Adaptation of the Poe story
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Edgar Allan Poe’s ill-fated hero meets his double.
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Set in an unnamed Italian city at carnival time in an unspecified year is about a man taking fatal revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him.
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The time is the early 21st century and a genetics lab has been destroyed in a fire seriously injuring a scientist and possibly killing his daughter. As two investigators begin to unravel the story of the lab and its experiments, they discover that the scientist may have started the fire himself with the intention of killing his own daughter. The journals of the scientist and of the lab's founder, Dr. Patricia Morella, tell the tale of genetics experiments going badly awry and of the deceit that was used to hide them even from some of those that were involved. Dr. Morella's legacy is a clone whose only goal in life is its own survival and reproduction...no matter what the cost!
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Después de una serie de tragedias y contratiempos, el joven William Legrand y su fiel sirviente, Júpiter, descubren en la misteriosa isla Sullivan un extraño escarabajo de oro para añadir a la colección de William. Allí mismo, Júpiter descubre una bolsa antigua, de piel enmohecida, con un mapa escrito con tinta invisible, cuyas marcas aparecen al exponerse a la luz y el calor del fuego.
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In this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale, a prisoner recounts the macabre series of events that led him to his current circumstances.
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In this Halloween Special, Babs Bunny plays the part of host as she and the Tiny Toons gang spoof various popular horror movies and TV shows. Among the works parodied are "Night Gallery", "The Twilight Zone", "The Devil and Daniel Webster", "Frankenstein" and the "Abbott and Costello Meet..." films.
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A crippled dwarf is forced to become jester to a tyrannical king, but when the king abuses a beautiful dwarf with whom the jester is in love the jester plots a terrible revenge.
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Alex es un extraño joven, que todos los días acude a la biblioteca Foster para estudiar temas místicos. Quiere investigar su pasado, el origen de la mítica raza de los vampiros.
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Siglo XV. Reinado de los Reyes Católicos. La Inquisición española recurre al terror, la tortura y la muerte en nombre de la religión. María, la esposa de un humilde panadero, es acusada de brujería por Torquemada. Con la ayuda de Esmeralda, compañera de celda y auténtica bruja, María y su marido intentan librarse de las garras de Torquemada (1420-1498), el Inquisidor General de Castilla y Aragón.
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A woman is plagued by dreams of being buried alive while her adulterous husband, steeped in gambling debts, hatches a scheme to drive her mad and murder her to acquire her fortune.
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Una bruja es condenada a muerte en la América colonial, dejando a su marido y su hija solos. Diecisiete años después, la hija ha crecido y hereda el dinero de la familia de su madre. Ahora que el escenario está listo, la madre quiere volver a la vida, tomando el cuerpo de su hija.
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Adaptación de dos relatos del escritor norteamericano Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). En el primero ("La verdad sobre el caso del señor Valdemar"), un viejo millonario sobrevive a la muerte a través del hipnotismo. Su esposa, una mujer más joven, planea con su amante mantener al marido con vida hasta que redacte su testamento. En el segundo ("El gato negro"), un reportero gráfico mantiene una relación con una mujer, amante de los gatos, que en una vida anterior había sido una sádica bruja.
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With a deadly plague ravaging his Renaissance kingdom, Prince Prospero invites his friends to retire to the protection of his castle for ongoing revels, leaving the peasantry to die. But fate is not so easily escaped by the debauched nobility.
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Una mujer se emplea como maestra en el Instituto Ravenscroft, un colegio de señoritas y en cuyo personal se puede contar un ex paciente mental. Acechada por misteriosas alucinaciones, la mujer comienza a investigar las desapariciones de algunas estudiantes.
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Mark Ravenna, un famoso director de cine de terror italiano, se propone guiar su última película titulada 'Suspiria: De Profundis'. Su película está basada en 'Suspiria' e 'Inferno' de Dario Argento y trata sobre la historia de Levana, Reina de todas las Brujas. Levana es la mayor de las tres amantes de la oscuridad, madre de la locura, la más poderosa de todas las maldades. Se advierte a Ravenna que no haga su película por temor a convocar a Levana hasta nuestros días. Él no hace caso a estas advertencias y lanza a su esposa Anne para interpretar el papel principal de Levana. Anne lee el guión y luego es perseguida y aterrorizada por la malvada bruja que le dice que sufrirá terribles torturas si continúa, y que todos los involucrados en la producción sufrirán graves consecuencias.
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"Perhaps the most striking aspect of George Snow’s work is is its visual richness, vitality and sheer exuberance: whether it is a narrative piece or a more abstract and visceral work, his masterly use of electronic colour enhancement, and virtuosity in manipulation of the image result in a visually seductive experience." - LUX
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C. Auguste Dupin (George C. Scott), detective retirado, vuelve al mundo de la investigación para ayudar al marido de su hija a demostrar que es inocente de unos crímenes de los que le acusan, concretamente del brutal asesinato de una madre y su hija en un pequeño apartamento en París.
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A short film based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" and Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's "A Torture by Hope".
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Upon arriving at the dilapidated estate of his mentor, Dr. Harker finds his former professor, Dr. Usher, radically changed. Instead of the reasoned scholar he once knew, a paranoid man is in his place and he's spiraling into madness.
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Experimental short made with the remains of an unfinished feature based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe
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Adaptación del relato homónimo de Edgar Allan Poe. Cuando un viajero llega a la mansión Usher, se da cuenta de que sus moradores son víctimas de una misteriosa maldición familiar (FILMAFFINITY)
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After a long journey, Alain arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic.
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Patrick Magee es un desquiciado científico y ocultista que se comunica con los muertos. Mientras tanto se van produciendo una serie de muertes en extrañas circunstancias y cada vez más horripilantes. La bella fotógrafa que se dedica a tomar instantáneas de la pintoresca arquitectura local y el detective de turno de Scotland Yard, se pondran tras la pista de estos extraños asesinatos. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Adaptación televisiva del famoso relato de E.A. Poe. Un hombre apasionado por la entomología se obsesiona con una extraña especie de escarabajo que acaba de encontrar porque piensa que contiene alguna clave secreta que debe investigar. En compañía de su criado y un amigo recorre una isla convencido de que el insecto les señalará el camino que conduce al escondite de un antiguo tesoro.
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Dos recién casados, Yolanda, una aventurera, y Simón, un joven ratón de biblioteca, viajan a la isla Banana, donde disfrutan de los días de vino y rosas de su luna de miel hasta que un moribundo particularmente ridículo les da un simple trozo de papel, poniendo así en marcha una loca búsqueda del tesoro, tan divertida y erótica como peligrosa. (Película filmada en 1979, perdida alrededor de enero de 1980 y encontrada por casualidad en 2018, en los archivos de la Filmoteca Española).
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After a long journey, a traveller and his wife arrive at the Usher mansion. Upon arriving, however, they discover that the mansion's sibling inhabitants, Roderick and Madeline Usher, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guests of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.
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Throughout his life, William Wilson finds himself being shadowed by another William Wilson, who seems to resemble him in more than name.
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A conflicted young seminarian named Caswell Campbell takes a three month sabbatical from his studies to explore his less Judeo-Christian impulses: casual gay sex and drugs.
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Basada en "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Feather" de Edgar Allan Poe. Un periodista francés del Siglo XIX descubre que un asilo ha sido tomado por uno de sus pacientes dementes, que ha permitido que sus compañeros hagan realidad sus fantasías.
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The film is based on the Edgar Allan Poe story The Black Cat, though apparently it varies the story, in that the anti-hero is haunted by a black cat after he accidentally sees a ritual gathering of witches (the sabbat of the title).
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Oliviero Rouvigny, exprofesor de la academia Tasso y escritor que ha perdido la inspiración, está casado con Irene, mujer cerrada que le acusa de ser aficionado al alcohol y de tener devaneos, si bien tampoco él la trata con miramientos. En verdad, Oliviero mantiene relaciones secretas con su exalumna Fausta, empleada de una librería, la cual aparece asesinada. Este asesinato y otros que ocurren, envuelven a Oliviero en una rueda de sospechas...
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A woman finds herself possessed by the soul of another woman trapped inside a painting. Based on a work by Edgar Allan Poe, aka The Oval Portrait.
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Siglo XIX. Cesar Charron, el propietario del teatro Grand Guignol de París, está realizando una adaptación de "Los crímenes de la Rue Morgue" (E. A. Poe) para consternación de su hija Madeleine, a la que la obra provoca pesadillas. Cuando varios miembros de la compañía teatral son asesinados, Charron empieza a sospechar que quizá René Marot, el asesino de su mujer al que la policía dio por muerto, esté vivo.
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Short animated movie based upon The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe.
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A retelling of Edgar Allan's Poe haunting tale.
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Una colección de 4 historias de Poe narradas por Vincent Price: 1) The Telltale Heart, 2) Pit and the Pendulum, 3) The Sphinx, y 4) The Cask of Amontillado.
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Short film based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe and narrated by Vincent Price.
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El aristócrata Julian Markham mantiene a su hermano desfigurado, Sir Edward, encerrado en una torre de su casa. De vez en cuando Sir Edward escapa y causa estragos en la ciudad...
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Federico Fellini's adaptation of a story by Edgar Allan Poe. Originally appeared as a segment in the omnibus film "Spirits of the Dead" but has been theatrically presented as a separate film.
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An animated adaptation of Poe's famous short story.
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Tres directores trasladan a la pantalla tres relatos de Edgar Allan Poe sobre almas atormentadas por el sentimiento de culpa, la lujuria y la codicia: Federico Fellini rueda "Toby Dammit", Louis Malle, "William Wilson" y Roger Vadim, "Metzengerstein".
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Un conde resucitado busca vengarse de una pareja, a la que atrae a su castillo y somete a torturas indecibles.
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A mentally unbalanced man is obsessed with the idea that a black cat is possessed. He tortures and kills it. Later, he comes to believe that the cat has returned from the dead to kill him.
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La abusiva relación profesional entre Luis, un intransigente pintor, y Ágata, su traumatizada modelo, da un inesperado vuelco cuando ella encuentra un misterioso autorretrato de él…
Story
An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that he was someone who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims and, in fact, his spirit was roaming the castle at that very moment. Soon occupants of the castle begin to die off in gruesome, violent ways.
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Un hombre-pez se introduce en un castillo costero y secuestra a una mujer (Susan Hart) cuyo rostro es muy parecido al de la esposa del rey del mundo submarino. Un joven ingeniero (Tab Hunter) y un pintor (David Tomlinson) se sumergen para rescatarla, pero, para ello, tendrán que enfrentarse con el siniestro rey de los hombres-pez (Vincent Price) y de la ciudad sumergida.
Story
An anthology horror film based off two stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
Short Story
En 1829, un joven se dirige a Londres en busca de su tío, un iracundo relojero, con el fin de que le proporcione un hogar y un oficio.
Story
Tras la muerte de Ligeia (Elizabeh Shepherd) su marido Verden Fell (Vincent Price) la entierra en una abadía, a pesar de la oposición de un sacerdote. Años después, en una cacería del zorro, la pelirroja Rowena (Shepherd) conoce a Verden e inmediatamente se siente atraída por él, sin detenerse a pensar en su extraña e inquietante conducta.
Story
Edad Media, siglo XII. Inspirada en el relato homónimo de Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Mientras una plaga devastadora -conocida como la Muerte Roja- diezma la población de una pequeña provincia italiana, el sádico y excéntrico príncipe Próspero se encierra con sus amigos en una de sus propiedades fortificadas para evitar el contagio. Para evadirse de la tragedia, decide organizar una fiesta de máscaras, en la que somete a los invitados a todo tipo de juegos depravados, de los que sólo podrán salir indemnes dos inocentes.
Author
Un periodista británico que intenta entrevistar a Edgar Allan Poe durante la visita que el escritor americano hace a Londres termina liado en una curiosa apuesta. Un noble llamado Lord Blackwood le desafía a pasar esa noche (la de difuntos) en una de sus propiedades: una mansión supuestamente embrujada. De la que, por cierto, no ha salido vivo ninguno de los que, con anterioridad, han intentado hacer lo mismo. Como es natural, el periodista acepta el reto.
Writer
A haunting short version of Edgar Allan Poe's famous story about a cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on a victim of the Spanish Inquisition...
Poem
Story
Cuando un hombre llega a un pueblecito de Nueva Inglaterra a reclamar el castillo de su familia, descubre que está habitado por mutantes y que, además, se halla bajo una diabólica y ancestral maldición. En otros tiempos, su abuelo se había dedicado allí a la practica de ritos satánicos.
Poem
Cuando un hombre llega a un pueblecito de Nueva Inglaterra a reclamar el castillo de su familia, descubre que está habitado por mutantes y que, además, se halla bajo una diabólica y ancestral maldición. En otros tiempos, su abuelo se había dedicado allí a la practica de ritos satánicos.
Short Story
Story
En el siglo XVIII, el nigromante Bedlo acude a su colega Erasmus a fin de solicitar su ayuda. Un malvado enemigo de ambos le ha transformado en cuervo y quiere vengarse de ello, después de recuperar su forma original.
Poem
En el siglo XVIII, el nigromante Bedlo acude a su colega Erasmus a fin de solicitar su ayuda. Un malvado enemigo de ambos le ha transformado en cuervo y quiere vengarse de ello, después de recuperar su forma original.
Story
Tres historias de terror basadas en tres relatos de Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Vincent Price es el protagonista de los tres episodios. En "Morella" interpreta a un hombre obsesionado por la idea de que su hija es la responsable de la muerte de su esposa. En "El Gato Negro", una pareja de amantes adúlteros son enterrados vivos por un esposo celoso. Y en "El Caso del señor Valdemar", a un brujo que condena a un inocente a sufrir un auténtico infierno en vida, le sale el tiro por la culata.
Story
Experimental gothic short, adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum'.
Original Story
Guy Carrell vive con su hermana Kate en la gran mansión familiar. Después de averiguar que su padre pudo haber sido enterrado vivo, Guy vive dominado por la obsesión de que a él le pueda ocurrir lo mismo, es decir, teme ser víctima de la catalepsia. A pesar de ello, decide casarse con su prometida Emily, la cual, no pudiendo soportar la fobia de su marido, decide pedir ayuda a Miles Archer, un científico amigo suyo.
Story
Francis Barnard llega a un siniestro castillo para averiguar la causa de la muerte de su hermana Elizabeth, esposa del atormentado Nicolás Medina, hijo de un cruel inquisidor español.
Story
When Edgar sees his girlfriend Betty getting up close and personal with his best friend Carl, he murders Carl in a jealous rage and hides the corpse under the floor of his piano room. Comes the night, and Edgar begins to hear strange sounds coming from under the floor...
Story
Inspirada en el relato homónimo de Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Siglo XIX. Philip Winthrop, un joven muy apuesto, se presenta en la sombría mansión de los Usher para pedir la mano de su amada Madeline, pero Roderick Usher (Vincent Price), el hermano de ella, se opone al matrimonio alegando que Madeline padece una extraña enfermedad que acabará pronto con su vida. Esa misma noche, hechos sobrecogedores comienzan a ocurrir en la misteriosa y siniestra casa.
Short Story
Tres cuentos extraordinarios escritos por Edgar Allan Poe, el Maestro de lo Grotesco: un hombre que está muerto pero no lo está; un barril de licor y una venganza meditada; un corazón que se niega a dejar de latir.
Short Story
Edgar Allan Poe's short story adapted as a TV-Movie in Argentina
Short Story
Edgar Allan Poe's short story adapted as a TV-Movie in Argentina.
Short Story
Story
Three deep sea divers get involved in murder while searching for a lost treasure.
Story
En París, durante una tranquila noche de verano, los vecinos de la calle Morgue son despertados por los gritos de una mujer. Cuando llega la policía, tiene que forzar la puerta de la casa de donde han salido los gritos de auxilio.
Story
Carlos va a visitar a su novia Juana al manicomio donde trabaja. Una vez allí, el director le presenta a su sobrina, obsesionada con tocar el arpa, y a un enfermero que repite palabra por palabra lo que dice Carlos.
Short Story
Carlos va a visitar a su novia Juana al manicomio donde trabaja. Una vez allí, el director le presenta a su sobrina, obsesionada con tocar el arpa, y a un enfermero que repite palabra por palabra lo que dice Carlos.
Story
Shot in 16mm, Berenice is Rohmer’s first finished film. The film is based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe about a man who becomes obsessed with his fiancé’s teeth. The film was shot at Andre Bazin’s house by Jacques Rivette. Rivette also edited the film.
Story
One of the most discussed and imaginative cartoons of any era. It tells the famous Edgar Allan Poe story of the deranged boarder who had to kill his landlord, not for greed, but because he possessed an "evil eye." The killer is never seen but his presence is felt by the use light-and-shadow to give the impression of impending disaster.
Short Story
Stanley Baker enacts the classic Edgar Allan Poe story in this chilling short film, only recently rediscovered after being lost for 50 years.
Poem
A short horror film based on Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven.
Story
A traveler arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.
Short Story
Una ciudad italiana, 1860. Durante los carnavales, Fortunato de Bettini se burla de su amigo Montresor que, humillado, planea una elaborada y cruel venganza.
Story
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive.
Original Story
A detective investigates the mysterious death of a young actress.
Novel
Curtis Harrington's student film based on the Edgar Allan Poe story.
Story
In this classic Edgar Allan Poe story, a man commits a murder, but afterward the victim's beating heart torments the murderer's mind.
Original Story
La anciana Henrietta Winslow vive en una solitaria mansión con su ama de llaves y sus queridos gatos. A medida que falla su salud, los codiciosos parientes se reúnen esperando su muerte.
Novel
Story
A doctor performs an experiment on a dying man by placing him under hypnosis on his deathbed.
Story
A crazed scientist invents a serum that induces a catatonic state in anyone who gets the injection. He uses the serum to paralyze his enemies, in order to bury them alive.
Poem
La joven Jean sufre un terrible accidente automovilístico, que la tiene al borde de la muerte. Para salvarla, se propone avisar al doctor Vollin, el mejor neurólogo del momento, pese a haberse retirado hace años para dedicarse a la investigación. En un principio se niega, pero la insistencia del padre de la joven surte efecto. El doctor salva a la joven, pero a medida que toma contacto con ella durante su recuperación, se enamora de ella. Pero ella ya está prometida, como su padre se encarga de recordar al doctor. Pero él no se dará por vencido, y está dispuesto a hacer cualquier cosa por conseguir a Jean.
Story
Una pareja en viaje de luna de miel, viajan en tren por las tierras de Budapest con destino a Wiesegrad, para después dirigirse a Gombos. Debido a un error de la ferroviaria, deben de aceptar hospedar en su vagón privado a un huésped, el doctor Vitus Werdegast, psiquiatra. Aunque a regañadientes, y para evitar que el intruso se quede en el pasillo toda la noche, aceptan. Una vez juntos, el doctor Vitus les dice que va a Wiesegrad a ver a un viejo amigo, pero por la expresión de su rostro no parece tener muy buenas intenciones. Durante el transcurso del viaje, la joven pareja se queda dormida, momento que aprovecha el doctor para acariciar la cabeza de la desposada. Pero el marido lo ha observado todo.
Story
An artist he so consumed with painting a portrait of the women he loves that he doesn't notice she is dying until it's too late. Shot as a silent film.
Novel
A madman is so obsessed by the protruding eye of the old man with whom he lives that he plots to murder him.
Novel
A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down. Remake of Unheimliche Geschichten (Richard Oswald, 1919).
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A finales del siglo XIX, un sádico doctor de París se dedica a secuestrar a mujeres jóvenes para realizar experimentos que puedan ayudarle a confirmar sus teorías sobre la evolución del mono al hombre. Desgraciadamente, las víctimas no sobreviven a los estudios del científico, y éste se ve obligado a capturar a nuevas desafortunadas para continuar con su trabajo. Mientras, la joven pareja formada por Camille y el joven médico Pierre vive ajena a los planes del doctor, hasta que ella se convierte en el próximo objetivo del científico.
Short Story
Disillusioned with his marriage which has ended in divorce, Petr Leroy goes off to the Riviera to the place where he first met his wife and where he hopes to be spiritually revived. Here he meets his friend Jan and together they enjoy the joys the Riviera has to offer. Jan meets a charming girl at the casino and he takes her off into the mountains. On his return he speaks of the beautiful Olga with whom he has spent a wonderful three days. Olga, however, does not appear for a meeting they had arranged, so Jan goes to look for her in the mountains. Then he sees her in a village and tries to catch up with her in his car. He has an accident. Olga takes him to the nearest sanatorium where everyone behaves very strangely to the newly-arrived patient.
Story
In a decaying castle surrounded by a dank, mirrored lake live the morbidly nervous Roderick Usher and his sickly twin sister, Madeline. Their tale is told and dimly comprehended by the unnamed narrator, a boyhood friend whom Roderick has summoned. When Madeline soon dies—or seems to die—they entomb her body. On a stormy night, "cracking and ripping" sounds and a "shriek" from below convince the panicky Roderick that "We have put her living into the tomb!" The shrouded, emaciated figure of Madeline appears at the door of Roderick's book-strewn study, falls upon him, "and in her violent and now final death-agonies, bore him to the floor a corpse."
Original Story
Un hombre llega a la mansión de su amigo Usher y la esposa de éste, Madelaine. Usher está pintando un retrato de su esposa, pero, al tiempo que transmite la esencia vital al lienzo, la mujer va desfalleciendo. Cuando perece, será enterrada en la cripta familiar, pero Usher no cree en verdad en la condición mortal de su amada... Adaptación libre de la historia de Poe.
Story
Segunda adaptación conocida del clásico relato de Edgar Allan Poe, tras la realizada por D. W. Griffith en 1914. Un hombre sufre el peso de la culpa del asesinato que ha cometido.
Writer
A man listening to Rachmoninoff's 'Prelude' dreams he is the victim of premature burial.
Story
Set in an imaginary land where the threat of revolution spurs the Emperor to seek exile in one of the most distant parts of his realm. There he meets Elka, the daughter of a revolutionary who has been banished here due to his confrontational activities. The two fall in love but meet a violent end when the revolutionaries, led by Elka's father, destroy the palace.
Writer
This drama was based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
Poem
This drama was based on the poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
Story
After the old-books shop closes, portraits of the Strumpet, Death, and the Devil come to life and amuse themselves by reading stories--about themselves.
Story
Suddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery. Acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city.
Author
After a brief view of Edgar Allan Poe's family background, his grandfather, David Poe, Sr., an Irish immigrant to America, and his father, David Poe, Jr., the poet's life is depicted from the death of his mother and his subsequent adoption by John Allan, to his own tortured death in 1849. Expelled from the University of Virginia for incurring too many debts, Poe nonetheless courts and marries Virginia Clemm but is disowned by his foster father. While residing in Fordham, New York, Poe tries to earn a living as a writer but meets with little financial success. Overwhelmed by their impoverished state, Virginia dies and Poe sinks into a profound depression. Always a victim of alcohol and subject to hallucinations, Poe first imagines that his neighbor, Helen Whitman, is Virginia, then plunges himself into an elaborate delusion in which his wife's spirit, various other spectres and a raven finally drive him to his own death.
Story
Un hombre comprueba cómo su relación con una hermosa muchacha se ve constreñida por el comportamiento de su tío. Una vez tomada la decisión, por fin decide asesinar al tío; sin embargo, cometido ya el crimen, la conciencia comenzará a pesar sobre él... (FILMAFFINITY)
Novel
The first film adaption of Edgar Alan Poe's novel.
Story
A visitor to an insane asylum realises that the inmates have taken control.
Story
Praga, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, un estudiante sin dinero, se enamora de la condesa Margit, una mujer noble y rica a la que ha salvado de morir ahogada.
Story
Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.
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Story
Pierre,a marquis, is madly in love with his dear wife Jeanne whose picture he is painting; one day while hunting in the woods, the husband accidentally kills his beloved one. He's desperate to finish the portrait so he uses other models but none of them can touch his late wife's beauty. Six months later he meets Madeleine who resembles his dear departed. It's not long before she understands her rival is a picture and she tries more and more to look like Jeanne.
Novel
The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But unbeknownst to the Count, his wife has set her eyes on the court minstrel. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's “The Cask of Amontillado” and Honoré de Balzac's “La Grande Breteche”.
Novel
Our picture relates to a crime committed by a Gorilla who escapes from his cage and through circumstantial evidence a young man, whom we will call in our story Jim, is accused and is just about to be convicted. Can Sherlock Holmes free him in time? (Moving Picture World)
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Author
“Uncanny Stories” is a horror anthology of short stories from famous writers adapted in animation by directors who are mad about genre films. The works of Laura Kasischke, H.P. Lovecraft and Jean Ray alongside the Brothers Grimm, William Tenn and Edgar Allan Poe all haunt the screen in a world of horror, fear and angst.
You’ll encounter a young girl who hates her stepmother so much she wants her dead, two young hikers who cross paths with a strange old woman, an explorer trapped by terrifying forces from a distant past, a man driving down a country lane on a rainy night, an endless nightmare, a lighthouse in a storm.
Transgressive and poignant stories that tap into your innermost fears.
