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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...
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- 1953
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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....
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- 1991
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- A bizarre descent into hell from the creator of re-animator.
The Tell-Tale Heart by Taletube.com
Initial release date:
- 2008
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- Taletube, where stories come to life ....
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...
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- Jan 25, 1963
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- The supreme adventure in terror! ,
- The Macabre Masterpiece of Terror! ,
- Wits and wizardry run a-fowl!
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...
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- 1965
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- 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!
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...
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- 1964
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- 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. ,
- Horror has a face.
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...
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- Jun 22, 1960
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- 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!
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...
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- Aug 12, 1961
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- The Greatest Terror Tale Ever Told! ,
- Edgar Allan Poe's diabolic classic ,
- Betrayal cuts both ways! ,
- Until now no one has dared to film this ...... the most diabolical classic of all time!
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...
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- Feb 21, 1932
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- 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!
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 ...
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- Sep 7, 1932
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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...
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- Aug 22, 1913
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...
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- 2008
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- Death comes to all...but one
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...
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- 2009
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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...
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- 1965
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- They rise from dank coffins in the dead of night, murdering their victims in an orgy of slaughter! ,
- Terror rises from the Grave.
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...
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- 1968
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- 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.
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...
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- Jul 8, 1935
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- While this mad surgical genius chanted "The Raven," horrible screams rose up from his torture chamber below!
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.
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- 2002
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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...
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- Oct 25, 1941
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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.
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- 1973
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- The Newest Edgar Allan Poe Horror Thriller! ,
- The madness of the mansion is uncontrollable!
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.
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- Dec 7, 1986
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- Two murders. An invisible perpetrator. Only one man can find the answers. ,
- How can you stop what you don't understand?
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...
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- 1928
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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...
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- Nov 3, 2005
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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,...
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- 1928
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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...
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- 2006
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- Some doors should never be opened
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...
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- 1969
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- 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.
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...
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- Sep 1971
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- 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!
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...
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- 1934
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- He menaced women with weird desires! ,
- A Subject Seldom Discussed ,
- True and Authentic/Nothing Withheld ,
- The Truth About Love Fearlessly Told
The Raven
"The Raven" is a 2007 thriller film by director David DeCoteau, based on Edgar Allan Poe's writing.
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- Aug 24, 2007
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- Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"
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...
Initial release date:
- Jan 25, 1990
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- When I Wake You...You'll Be Dead.
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...
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- 1909
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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.
Initial release date:
- May 2, 1941
