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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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Um homem cuida de outro homem. Um é jovem, o outro é velho. O jovem é louco, o velho é a vítima. Quando o mal vive dentro de ti, o mundo inteiro não te deixa dormir
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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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A haunting account of a tormented man, haunted by the heart of a man he murdered, who continually re-admits himself into a medical facility, in a futile attempt to escape from his pending madness.
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Um Farol abandonado em uma remota península é assombrado por fantasmas assustadores. Um jovem deve enfrentar as criaturas grotescas da noite ou prestar atenção nos avisos do cuidador do farol para sempre manter uma luz acesa!
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Um desafio sobre a percepção de realidade. Assassinatos e loucura tornam-se o real, onde a moral não existe e todos correm perigo, inclusive os entes queridos. Baseado em um conto de Edgar Allan Poe, uma força de terror entre quem está no caminho e o desejo de vingança.
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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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Um médico recém-formado em Harvard que aceita trabalhar em um hospício, sem saber que o controle da instituição foi tomado pelos pacientes. No meio do caos, ele acaba se apaixonando pela misteriosa paciente Eliza Graves.
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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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Uma antologia de cinco macabros contos animados baseados em clássicas histórias de Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell Tale Heart; The Fall of House Usher; Strange Case of Mr Valdemar; The Mask of the Red Death; The Pit and the Pendulum). Cada segmento é trabalhado num estilo de design gráfico e misturas de texturas, técnicas e colorização, inspirados visualmente desde no expressionismo alemão as graphic novels, especialmente adequados para melhor expressar a profundidade psicológica e complexidade do universo sombrio de Poe.
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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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During Spring Break, a fraternity built atop the burned ruins of an insane asylum is haunted by a sinister visitor...
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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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Permeando pelo mesmo clima assombroso das narrativas de Edgar Allan Poe, Imortal conduz o espectador para a história de Jonathan Merrick, um escritor de sucesso que de repente torna-se alvo dos feitiços da irresistível Ligeia. Marcada para morrer por conta de uma doença fatal, a bela mulher decide lutar contra a morte usando magias místicas capazes de sugar a alma do corpo humano. Tal poder, se bem efetuado, lhe dará a imortalidade. Como parte de sua empreitada, Ligeia arrasta Jonathan para o interior do seu mundo selvagem e assustador e ainda o separa de sua noiva, Rowena. Mesmo depois de sua morte trágica, Ligeia continua assombrando Jonathan, levando-o à beira da insanidade... Baseado no conto clássico de Edgar Allan Poe intitulado Ligeia, Imortal conta com o roteiro de John Shirley, o mesmo roteirista de O Corvo, sucesso dos anos 90, e a direção do estreante Michael Staniger
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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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Terry Bernard (Josh Lucas) está se recuperando de um transplante de coração. Um dia, ao fazer um check up, seu coração começa a bater mais forte quando um paramédico passa ao seu lado. Assim que ele se afasta tudo volta ao normal. A situação volta a acontecer mais tarde, deixando Terry preocupado. É quando ele descobre que seu novo coração veio de um assassino e que ele tem vontade própria, podendo matá-lo ou levá-lo à loucura.
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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 chega na famosa Casa dos Usher, logo depois de ser bem recebido pelos familiares Roderick e Madeline Usher e seu empregado, Markus. Victor descobre mais sobre a história da casa e sobre o desaparecimento daqueles que ali estiveram anteriormente, então ele começa a perceber que está em perigo mortal.
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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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Nesta atualização do conto clássico de Edgar Allan Poe, é hora da maior festa gay do ano; infelizmente, o anfitrião escolheu o local do infame Massacre de Ravenswood para organizar sua festa de gala. Um infame assassinato em massa aconteceu lá cinquenta anos atrás à noite, mas isso faz parte da diversão para as gatas elegantes que aparecem para algumas festas embriagadas. O devaneio é interrompido quando um assassino mascarado por Raven estraga a festa, com a intenção de repetir a sangrenta história do "Massacre de Ravenwood" que aconteceu décadas atrás. Quando o assassino desconhecido pega os convidados um a um, velhos ressentimentos ressurgem entre amigos e novas suspeitas surgem.
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Edgar Allan Poe, um escritor sem idéias e sem dinheiro,é atormentado por um gato preto que destruirá a sua vida ou o inspirará a escrever uma das histórias mais famosas dele.
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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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Jean é assombrado por seu pesadelo terrível e quebra todo o quarto do hotel onde está hospedado, assustando os hóspedes. O evento o leva a conhecer o Marquês, um homem que ainda vive como se estivesse no século XVIII, que oferece a Jean um tempo de estadia em seu palácio e uma possível cura para seu "problema".
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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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Adaptação de um conto de Edgar Allan Poe, conta a história de um homem que se torna obcecado com o olho de seu vizinho, até o ponto em que isso leva a consequências mortais
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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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Adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe novel.
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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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Anne é uma jovem bibliotecária que desperta rapidamente o interesse do elegante e discreto Alex, um dos frequentadores regulares do espaço. O que ninguém sabe é que ele é um vampiro com séculos de vida que viu nela uma sósia de um amor antigo, há muito desaparecido, e que ele também é o responsável pela onda de mortes misteriosas que tem acontecido na cidade.
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É o tempo da Inquisição Espanhola. Maria não gosta do que está acontecendo. Quando ela protesta é presa e acusada de ser uma bruxa. Torquemada ordena que ela seja torturada e que sua língua seja cortada.
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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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Uma bruxa é morta na América Colonial, deixando para trás seu marido e sua filha menor. Dezessete anos depois, a filha cresceu e está para herdar o dinheiro criado pela família de sua mãe. Agora que o cenário está montado, a mãe quer voltar à vida assumindo o corpo de sua filha.
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Dois contos de terror baseados em contos de Edgar Allan Poe, dirigidos pelos famosos diretores de terror George A. Romero e Dario Argento. Uma esposa gananciosa mata seu marido, mas não completamente; um repórter desprezível adota um estranho gato preto.
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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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A young woman goes to teach at the Ravenscroft Institute, a spooky old girls' school overrun by ants and staffed by some unusual types. Spurred on by a series of horrific hallucinations, she begins to investigate the mysterious disappearances of several students.
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Mark Ravenna, a famous Italian horror film director, sets out to script his latest film entitled 'Suspiria : De Profundis'. His film is based on Dario Argento's 'Suspiria' and 'Inferno' and deals with the story of Levana, Queen of all Witches. Levana is the eldest of the three mistresses of darkness, mother of madness, most powerful of all evil. Ravenna is warned not to make his film in fear of actually summoning Levana to the present day. He does not heed these warnings and casts his wife Anne to play the lead role of Levana. Anne reads the script and is then haunted and terrorized by the evil witch who tells her she will suffer terrible tortures if she continues, and that everyone involved with the production will suffer dire consequences.
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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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A detective comes out of retirement to help his daughter's fiance prove that he did not commit a series of murders.
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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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Curta experimental feito com as sobras de um longa não finalizado baseado na obra de Edgar Allan Poe
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In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a mysterious family curse: The brother's senses have become painfully acute, while his sister has become nearly catatonic.
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Depois de uma longa jornada, Alain chega à mansão Usher para visitar seu velho amigo, Roderick Usher. Ao chegar, no entanto, ele descobre que Roderick e sua irmã, Madeline, foram atingidos por uma doença misteriosa. Durante a noite, Roderick relata ao seu hóspede uma velha maldição da família Usher: sempre que houve mais de uma criança Usher, todos os irmãos ficaram loucos e morreram mortes horríveis. À medida que os dias passam, os efeitos da maldição atingem um terrível clímax.
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When a young couple goes missing in a sleepy English village, Scotland Yard Inspector Gorley is brought in to assist on the case. But what starts off as routine investigation turns into a murder inquiry when the couple are found dead in mysterious circumstances.
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Two newlyweds, Yolanda, an adventurer, and Simón, a young bookworm, travel to Banana Island, where they enjoy the days of wine and roses of their honeymoon until a particularly ridiculous dying man gives them a simple scrap of paper, thus putting into motion a crazy treasure hunt, as fun and erotic as it is dangerous. (Filmed in 1979, lost around January 1980 and found by chance in 2018, in the vaults of the Spanish Film Archive.)
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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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The inmates of an insane asylum take over the institution, imprison the doctors and staff, and then put into play their own ideas of how the place should be run.
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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 is a drunk, burned-out writer who amuses himself by hosting orgies at his grand country manor and humiliating his wife Irina. When a number of women are murdered in grisly fashion, Oliviero becomes a prime suspect.
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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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Investigação de série de assassinatos ocorridos numa companhia de teatro aponta como principal suspeito Marot, ator já morto. Inspirado na clássica obra de Edgar Allan Poe.
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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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Especial para a TV produzido em 1972, com quatro contos de Edgar Allan Poe narrados por Vincent Price: "O Coração Delator", "A Esfinge", "O Barril de Amontillado" e "O Poço e o Pêndulo".
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Short film based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe and narrated by Vincent Price.
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Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town.
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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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Três histórias baseadas nos contos de terror de Edgar Allan Poe: “Metzengerstein” (Roger Vadim) é sobre uma mulher de família nobre que se apaixona pelo primo, mas não consegue tê-lo. “William Wilson” (Louis Malle) é sobre um homem que, durante toda vida, foi atormentado pelo seu duplo. “Toby Dammit” (Federico Fellini) é sobre um ator inglês que está constantemente atormentado pelos fãs, repórteres e pelo demônio.
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In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor in order to attain immortal life.
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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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The abusive professional relationship between Luis, an intransigent painter, and Ágata, his traumatized model, takes an unexpected turn when she finds a mysterious self-portrait of him…
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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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Engenheiro encontra o corpo do advogado de uma amiga na praia e vai até à casa dela para avisá-la do óbito. A moça desaparece misteriosamente e este, com a ajuda de um pintor, parte em busca dela, por meio de uma passagem secreta na casa, que os leva a um mundo submarino habitado por criaturas metade humana, metade peixe e com um homem louco que as governa.
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An anthology horror film based off two stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
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In 1829, a young man goes to London in search of his uncle, an irate watchmaker, in order to provide him with a home and a job.
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Verden Fell is shattered after the death of his lovely wife. But, after an unexpected encounter with Lady Rowena Trevanion, Fell soon finds himself married again. Nevertheless, his late wife's spirit seems to hang over the dilapidated abbey that Fell shares with his new bride. Lady Rowena senses that something is amiss and, when she investigates, makes a horrifying discovery -- learning that Fell's dead wife is closer than she ever imagined possible.
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No Século XIII, o sinistro príncipe Prospero (Vincent Price) vive afastado do mundo, enclausurado em seu castelo, enquanto a temível Peste Vermelha toma conta do resto da cidade. As injustiças do monarca serão vingadas durante um baile à fantasia realizado no interior do seu castelo, quando uma misteriosa figura vestida com uma máscara vermelha revela sua identidade.
Author
A writer accepts a wager that he cannot spend the night alone in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve. Once night falls at the castle, several who had been murdered therein return to life, reliving their deaths and seeking to kill the writer for his blood in a vain attempt to stay alive beyond that one night.
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...
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Charles é condenado à morte por bruxaria e roga uma praga dizendo que voltará dos mortos para matar seus algozes. Cem anos depois, o tataraneto de Charles chega à cidade com o desejo de retomar a propriedade de seu ancestral, um castelo assombrado.
Poem
Charles é condenado à morte por bruxaria e roga uma praga dizendo que voltará dos mortos para matar seus algozes. Cem anos depois, o tataraneto de Charles chega à cidade com o desejo de retomar a propriedade de seu ancestral, um castelo assombrado.
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O poderoso feiticeiro Dr. Erasmus Craven (Vincent Price) vive recluso em seu castelo, de luto pela morte de sua esposa Lenore (Hazel Court) há dois anos, para tristeza da filha dele, Estelle (Olive Sturgess). Em uma noite, entra pela janela um corvo que se revela como o feiticeiro Dr. Bedlo (Peter Lorre), transformado na ave após um duelo de magia com o maligno Dr. Scarabus (Boris Karloff). Craven o ajuda a voltar ao normal e Bedlo quer retornar ao castelo de Scarabus para a revanche. Craven vai junto, pois Bedlo lhe contara que vira o fantasma de Lenore no lugar. Acompanha a dupla de feiticeiros Estelle e Rexford (Jack Nicholson), filho de Bedlo. No castelo de Scarabus, ocorre o novo duelo de magia dele com Bedlo e, depois, a luta final com Craven.
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O poderoso feiticeiro Dr. Erasmus Craven (Vincent Price) vive recluso em seu castelo, de luto pela morte de sua esposa Lenore (Hazel Court) há dois anos, para tristeza da filha dele, Estelle (Olive Sturgess). Em uma noite, entra pela janela um corvo que se revela como o feiticeiro Dr. Bedlo (Peter Lorre), transformado na ave após um duelo de magia com o maligno Dr. Scarabus (Boris Karloff). Craven o ajuda a voltar ao normal e Bedlo quer retornar ao castelo de Scarabus para a revanche. Craven vai junto, pois Bedlo lhe contara que vira o fantasma de Lenore no lugar. Acompanha a dupla de feiticeiros Estelle e Rexford (Jack Nicholson), filho de Bedlo. No castelo de Scarabus, ocorre o novo duelo de magia dele com Bedlo e, depois, a luta final com Craven.
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Três histórias aterrorizantes adaptadas das obra de Edgar Allan Poe: "Morella", "O Gato Preto" e "A Verdade Sobre o Caso do Sr. Waldemar". A primeira é sobre um homem atormentado com o passado e com sua falecida esposa. Em "O Gato Preto", um indivíduo tem fantasias mortais com a mulher de seu rival. Na terceira, um hipnotizador realiza um experimento, hipnotizando o Sr. Waldemar na hora de sua morte.
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Experimental gothic short, adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum'.
Original Story
Emily Gault chega à mansão Carrell determinada a reacender um antigo relacionamento com Guy Carrell, apesar da desaprovação de sua irmã, Kate. Guy supera seu medo intenso de ser enterrado vivo por tempo suficiente para se casar com Emily, mas logo fica obcecado novamente, construindo uma cripta projetada para garantir que ele não será vítima de seu pesadelo mais temido. Tentando provar que foi curado de sua fobia, ele abre a tumba de seu pai e fica em estado de choque em um estado catatônico. Seus piores medos se concretizam quando ele é baixado à sepultura e coberto, aparentemente para nunca saber que a traição de alguém muito querido foi a responsável direta por sua situação.
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Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive!
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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...
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Baseado em uma história de Edgar Allan Poe, o filme narra a história de Philip Winthrop, que chega à mansão Usher com o intuito de levar sua amada, Madeline, para a sua cidade. Chegando lá ele confronta-se com o irmão dela, Roderick, que vai revelando, um a um, os aterrorizantes segredos de sua família.
Short Story
Three extraordinary tales written by Edgar Allan Poe, the Master of the Grotesque: a man who is dead but is not; a cask of liquor and a meditated revenge; a heart that refuses to stop beating.
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.
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Three deep sea divers get involved in murder while searching for a lost treasure.
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When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is someone (or something) stronger and deadlier than a human.
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Carlos goes to visit his girlfriend Juana at the asylum where she works. Once there, the director introduces him to his niece, who is obsessed with playing the harp, and to a nurse who repeats word for word what Carlos says.
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Carlos goes to visit his girlfriend Juana at the asylum where she works. Once there, the director introduces him to his niece, who is obsessed with playing the harp, and to a nurse who repeats word for word what Carlos says.
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O primeiro filme acabado de Rohmer, Berenice é baseado na história de Edgar Allan Poe sobre um homem obcecado pelos dentes de sua prima. Editado por Jacques Rivette e filmado em 16mm na casa de André Bazin.
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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.
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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
An Italian city, 1860. During the carnival, Fortunato de Bettini mocks his friend Montresor who, humiliated, plans an elaborate and cruel revenge.
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
Greedy heirs wait in a mansion for a rich cat lover to die, only to learn her cats come first.
Novel
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A doctor performs an experiment on a dying man by placing him under hypnosis on his deathbed.
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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
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.
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After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
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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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Em 1845, em Paris, o cientista louco Dr. Mirakle sequestra mulheres jovens e as injeta com sangue de macaco para criar uma companheira para Erik, seu macaco falante de show secundário. Pierre Dupin, um jovem e ingênuo estudante de medicina e detetive, a noiva de Pierre, Camille L'Espanaye, e seus amigos Paul e Mignette, visitam o show secundário de Mirakle, onde expõem Erik. Tanto Mirakle quanto seu servo Janos estão encantados por Camille, que Mirakle planeja como companheira de Erik. Mirakle convida Camille para dar uma olhada em Erik, que agarra seu chapéu. Pierre tenta recuperar o capô, mas Erik tenta estrangulá-lo. Mirakle restringe Erik e se oferece para substituir o capô, mas Camille desconfia e reluta em dar seu endereço ao médico. Quando Pierre e Camille partem, Mirakle ordena que Janos os siga.
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.
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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
O Lorde Roderick Usher vive numa casa perdida no meio dos lagos, evitada pela população da vila próxima, e está muito preocupado com a saúde da esposa Madeleine. Ele envia uma carta a um velho amigo, que vai visitá-lo neste lugar carregado de angústia e o encontra pintando com obstinação o retrato da mulher. Certo dia, a esposa de Usher morre e é enterrada na cripta da propriedade. Mas Roderick está convencido de que ela está apenas adormecida.
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An insane man first loves then grows to hate his neighbor, an old man whose penetrating gaze unnerves the insane man. He plans a perfect crime and executes it one night. The next day, two officers knock on the insane man's door, investigating a shriek heard in the night. The insane man invites them in, answers their questions, and submits to an examination of his eyes by one of the officers, who proclaims him innocent. The insane man invites them to stay and relax awhile, then regales them with his theories of crime. His heart begins to beat louder. Angles on the set are skewed to suggest the man's internal disarray.
Writer
A man listening to Rachmoninoff's 'Prelude' dreams he is the victim of premature burial.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Becoming convinced that murder is merely a natural part of life, he kills his uncle and hides the body. However, the man's conscience awakens; Paranoia sets in and nightmarish visions begin to haunt him.
Novel
The first film adaption of Edgar Alan Poe's novel.
Story
Baseado num dos contos fantásticos de Edgar Allan Poe. O visitante de um asilo para loucos encontra dificuldades em distinguir os médicos dos pacientes.
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Praga, Boêmia, 1820. Balduin, um estudante sem dinheiro, se apaixona pela Condessa Margit, uma nobre abastada que ele salva do afogamento.
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Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.
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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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“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.
