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Many of Poe's stories, and even some of this poems, have been adapted on film. Here, a list of films based on his works.
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The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart is a 1953 American animated short film directed by Ted Parmelee and narrated by James Mason. The screenplay by Bill Scott and Fred Grable is based on the 1843 short story of the same title by Edgar Allan Poe. The plot focuses on...
x Initial release date:
1953
x Directed by:
Ted Parmelee
x Tagline:
x Adapted From:
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum (released on DVD in the United States as The Inquisitor) is a 1991 horror film directed by Stuart Gordon and based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It received an R rating for violence, scenes of torture, and nudity....
x Initial release date:
1991
x Directed by:
Stuart Gordon
x Tagline:
A bizarre descent into hell from the creator of re-animator.
x Adapted From:
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Tell-Tale Heart by Taletube.com

The Tell-Tale Heart by Taletube.com

x Initial release date:
2008
x Directed by:
Stephen Conley,
John Dur
x Tagline:
Taletube, where stories come to life ....
x Adapted From:
The Tell-Tale Heart,
The Cask of Amontillado
The Raven

The Raven

The Raven is a 1963 horror film produced and directed by Roger Corman. The film stars Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff as a trio of rival sorcerers. Part of a series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptions produced by Corman through American...
x Initial release date:
Jan 25, 1963
x Directed by:
Roger Corman
x Tagline:
The supreme adventure in terror!,
The Macabre Masterpiece of Terror!,
Wits and wizardry run a-fowl!
x Adapted From:
The Raven
The Tomb of Ligeia

The Tomb of Ligeia

The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) is an American International Pictures horror film starring Vincent Price and Elizabeth Shepherd in a story about a man haunted by the spirit of his dead wife and her effect on his second marriage. The screenplay by Robert...
x Initial release date:
1965
x Directed by:
Roger Corman
x Tagline:
CAT or WOMAN or a Thing Too Evil to Mention?,
Even on her wedding night she must share the man she loved with the "Female Thing" that lived in the Tomb of the Cat!
x Adapted From:
Ligeia
The Masque of the Red Death

The Masque of the Red Death

The Masque of the Red Death (1964) is an American International Pictures horror film starring Vincent Price in a tale about a prince who terrorizes a plague-ridden peasantry while merrymaking in a lonely castle with his jaded courtiers. The film was...
x Initial release date:
1964
x Directed by:
Roger Corman
x Tagline:
LOOK INTO THIS FACE - SHUDDER... at the blood-stained dance of the Red Death! TREMBLE... to the hideous tortures of the catacombs of Kali! GASP... at the sacrifice of the innocent virgin to the vengeance of Baal!,
Stare into this face and count if you can the orgies of evil....,
We defy you to stare into this face.,
more ▼
x Adapted From:
The Masque of the Red Death,
Hop-Frog
House of Usher

House of Usher

House of Usher (1960) is an American International Pictures horror film starring Vincent Price, Myrna Fahey, and Mark Damon in a tale about a New England family cursed with madness, criminal conduct, and debauchery. The film was directed by Roger...
x Initial release date:
Jun 22, 1960
x Directed by:
Roger Corman
x Tagline:
The House of Usher is no more - and the place whereon it stood is as if - it had never been.,
I heard her first feeble movements in the coffin... we had put her living in the tomb!
x Adapted From:
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum is a 1961 horror film directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, and Luana Anders. The screenplay by Richard Matheson was based on Edgar Allan Poe’s short story of the same name. Set in 16th...
x Initial release date:
Aug 12, 1961
x Directed by:
Roger Corman
x Tagline:
The Greatest Terror Tale Ever Told!,
Edgar Allan Poe's diabolic classic,
Betrayal cuts both ways!,
more ▼
x Adapted From:
The Pit and the Pendulum
Murders in the Rue Morgue

Murders in the Rue Morgue

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) is a Universal Pictures pre-Code horror film loosely based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue." Bela Lugosi, one year after his legendary performance as Dracula, portrays a lunatic...
x Initial release date:
Feb 21, 1932
x Directed by:
Robert Florey
x Tagline:
Innocent Beauty - this was her wedding eve. On the wall a shadow . . the beast was at large grinning horribly-cruelly. What was Her Fate ?,
Edgar Allan Poe's dramatic story of the horrors of Paris.,
A powerful cast that will guarantee entertainment!
x Adapted From:
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Living Dead

The Living Dead

Unheimliche Geschichten (Uncanny Stories) is a 1932 German horror/black comedy film directed by the prolific Austrian film director Richard Oswald, starring Paul Wegener, and produced by Gabriel Pascal. The story is a merging of Edgar Allan Poe's ...
x Initial release date:
Sep 7, 1932
x Directed by:
Richard Oswald
x Tagline:
x Adapted From:
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether,
The Black Cat,
The Suicide Club
The Student of Prague

The Student of Prague

The Student of Prague (German: Der Student von Prag, also known as A Bargain with Satan) is a 1913 German silent horror film. The film was remade in 1926, 1935, and 2004 under the same title The Student of Prague. A poor student rescues a beautiful...
x Initial release date:
Aug 22, 1913
x Directed by:
Paul Wegener,
Stellan Rye
x Tagline:
x Adapted From:
Faust,
William Wilson
Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia

Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia

Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia is an upcoming film. Based on the Edgar Allan Poe short story "Ligeia". A successful writer and scholar, Johnathon, becomes involved with a graduate student, Ligeia. She's dying of cancer and in trying to defeat death, she...
x Initial release date:
2008
x Directed by:
Michael Staininger
x Tagline:
Death comes to all...but one
x Adapted From:
Ligeia
Tell-Tale

Tell-Tale

Tell-Tale is an upcoming thriller film inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe short story The Tell-Tale Heart. It is directed by Michael Cuesta and stars Josh Lucas, Lena Headey, and Brian Cox. A man's recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic...
x Initial release date:
2009
x Directed by:
Michael Cuesta
x Tagline:
x Adapted From:
The Tell-Tale Heart
Terror-Creatures from the Grave

Terror-Creatures from the Grave

Terror-Creatures from the Grave (Italian title: Cinque tombe per un medium) is a 1965 Italian supernatural horror film directed by Massimo Pupillo. The film stars Barbara Steele, Walter Brandi, and Mirella Maravidi. An attorney arrives at a castle...
x Initial release date:
1965
x Directed by:
Massimo Pupillo
x Tagline:
They rise from dank coffins in the dead of night, murdering their victims in an orgy of slaughter!,
Terror rises from the Grave.
x Adapted From:
Spirits of the Dead

Spirits of the Dead

Histoires extraordinaires (Spirits of the Dead, also Tre Passi Nel Delirio in Italy) is a 1968 "omnibus" film comprising three segments. The French title Histoires Extraordinaires (Extraordinary Stories) is from the first collection of Poe's short...
x Initial release date:
1968
x Directed by:
Louis Malle,
Federico Fellini,
Roger Vadim
x Tagline:
the ultimate orgy of evil,
Three tales of the macabre by Edgar Allen Poe,
One master of American literature brought to the screen by three masters of European cinema.
x Adapted From:
Never Bet the Devil Your Head,
William Wilson,
Metzengerstein
The Raven

The Raven

The Raven (1935) is a horror film starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi, and directed by Lew Landers. It revolves around Edgar Allan Poe's famous poem, featuring Lugosi as a Poe-obsessed mad surgeon with a torture chamber in his basement and...
x Initial release date:
Jul 8, 1935
x Directed by:
Lew Landers
x Tagline:
While this mad surgical genius chanted "The Raven," horrible screams rose up from his torture chamber below!
x Adapted From:
The Raven
Ken Russell's Fall of the Louse of Usher

Ken Russell's Fall of the Louse of Usher

Remotely based upon Poe's Fall of the House of Usher. Filmed in digital video with a cast of unknowns featuring much simulated sexual activity and a gorilla as a significant character. Not one of Ken's finer moments of film making.
x Initial release date:
2002
x Directed by:
Ken Russell
x Tagline:
x Adapted From:
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart is a 1941 American drama film directed by Jules Dassin. The screenplay by Doane R. Hoag is based on the 1843 short story of the same title by Edgar Allan Poe. The film marked Dassin's directorial debut after working as an...
x Initial release date:
Oct 25, 1941
x Directed by:
Jules Dassin
x Tagline:
x Adapted From:
The Tell-Tale Heart
The Mansion of Madness

The Mansion of Madness

Very loosely based upon a story by Edgar Allen Poe, the film features a tour of a insane asylum by the notorious Dr. Tarr, where not all appears as it should be.
x Initial release date:
1973
x Directed by:
Juan López Moctezuma
x Tagline:
The Newest Edgar Allan Poe Horror Thriller!,
The madness of the mansion is uncontrollable!
x Adapted From:
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether
Revenge in the House of Usher

Revenge in the House of Usher

x Initial release date:
1982
x Directed by:
Jesús Franco
x Tagline:
x Adapted From:
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Murders in the Rue Morgue

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a 1986 film adapted from American author and poet Edgar Allan Poe's short story of the same title. Directed by Jeannot Szwarc, the film stars Val Kilmer, George C. Scott, and Rebecca de Mornay.
x Initial release date:
Dec 7, 1986
x Directed by:
Jeannot Szwarc
x Tagline:
Two murders. An invisible perpetrator. Only one man can find the answers.,
How can you stop what you don't understand?
x Adapted From:
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
La Chute de la maison Usher

La Chute de la maison Usher

La Chute de la maison Usher (1928) is a horror film directed by Jean Epstein based on The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. Famed film director Luis Buñuel worked on this film with Epstein, and also worked as assistant director on...
x Initial release date:
1928
x Directed by:
Jean Epstein
x Tagline:
x Adapted From:
The Fall of the House of Usher,
The Oval Portrait
Lunacy

Lunacy

Lunacy, also known as Šílení is a 2005 film by Jan Švankmajer. The film is loosely based on two short stories, The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether and The Premature Burial, by Edgar Allan Poe. It is also partly inspired by the works of...
x Initial release date:
Nov 3, 2005
x Directed by:
Jan Švankmajer
x Tagline:
x Adapted From:
The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether,
The Premature Burial
The Fall of the House of Usher

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Fall of the House of Usher is a 1928 short silent horror film adaptation of the short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe. It tells the story of a brother and sister who live under a family curse. It stars Herbert Stern,...
x Initial release date:
1928
x Directed by:
James Sibley Watson,
Melville Webber
x Tagline:
x Adapted From:
The Fall of the House of Usher
The House of Usher

The House of Usher

The House of Usher is a 2006 thriller based on the Edgar Allan Poe story, The Fall of the House of Usher. The film was directed by Hayley Cloake and written by Collin Chang. It stars Austin Nichols, Izabella Miko, and Beth Grant. Modern updating of...
x Initial release date:
2006
x Directed by:
Hayley Cloake
x Tagline:
Some doors should never be opened
x Adapted From:
The Fall of the House of Usher
Castle of the Walking Dead

Castle of the Walking Dead

x Initial release date:
1967
x Directed by:
Harald Reinl
x Tagline:
x Adapted From:
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Oblong Box

The Oblong Box

The Oblong Box is a 1969 British horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Alister Williamson. Like The Mummy (1959), The Reptile (1965) and The Ghoul (1975), the film's story details guilt-ridden Britons...
x Initial release date:
1969
x Directed by:
Gordon Hessler
x Tagline:
For the first time... the classic tale of the restless dead and their unspeakable hungers!,
Edgar Allan Poe's Classic Tale Of The Living Dead!,
Some things are better left buried.
x Adapted From:
The Oblong Box
Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue

Murders in the Rue Morgue is a 1971 horror film directed by Gordon Hessler, starring Jason Robards and Herbert Lom. It is ostensibly an adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story of the same name, although it departs from the story in several...
x Initial release date:
Sep 1971
x Directed by:
Gordon Hessler
x Tagline:
A sigh... A gasp... A scream! Night has fallen on the Rue Morgue.,
Edgar Allen Poe's masterpiece of horror...,
LOVE and MURDER are the two consuming passions of the Rue Morgue!
x Adapted From:
The Murders in the Rue Morgue,
The Phantom of the Opera
Maniac

Maniac

Maniac (Also known as Sex Maniac) is a 1934 black and white exploitation/horror film, directed by Dwain Esper and written by Hildegarde Stadie, Esper's wife. The film was advertised with the tagline "He menaced women with his weird desires!" The...
x Initial release date:
1934
x Directed by:
Dwain Esper
x Tagline:
He menaced women with weird desires!,
A Subject Seldom Discussed,
True and Authentic/Nothing Withheld,
more ▼
x Adapted From:
The Black Cat
The Raven

The Raven

"The Raven" is a 2007 thriller film by director David DeCoteau, based on Edgar Allan Poe's writing.
x Initial release date:
Aug 24, 2007
x Directed by:
David DeCoteau
x Tagline:
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"
x Adapted From:
The Raven,
The Masque of the Red Death
Two Evil Eyes

Two Evil Eyes

Two Evil Eyes (Italian: Due occhi diabolici) is a 1990 portmanteau horror film written and directed by the Italian Dario Argento and the American George A. Romero. The two had previously worked together on the immensely popular Dawn of the Dead in...
x Initial release date:
Jan 25, 1990
x Directed by:
Dario Argento,
George A. Romero
x Tagline:
When I Wake You...You'll Be Dead.
x Adapted From:
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,
The Black Cat
The Sealed Room

The Sealed Room

The Sealed Room is an eleven minute film released in 1909. Directed by D.W. Griffith, the film's cast included Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard, Henry B. Walthall, Mary Pickford, and Mack Sennett. Suggested by Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of...
x Initial release date:
1909
x Directed by:
D. W. Griffith
x Tagline:
x Adapted From:
The Cask of Amontillado
The Black Cat

The Black Cat

The Black Cat is a 1941 film based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Actor Bela Lugosi also appeared in the 1934 adaptation of the story. The comedy/horror film was directed by Albert S. Rogell, and starred Basil Rathbone.
x Initial release date:
May 2, 1941
x Directed by:
Albert S. Rogell
x Tagline:
x Adapted From:
The Black Cat
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