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| x Two Evil Eyes |
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The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar |
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...
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| The Black Cat | |||
| x The Tomb of Ligeia |
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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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| x The Tell-Tale Heart by Taletube.com |
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The Tell-Tale Heart | |
| The Cask of Amontillado | |||
| x The Tell-Tale Heart |
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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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| x The Tell-Tale Heart |
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The Tell-Tale Heart |
The Tell-Tale Heart is a 1960 British drama film directed by Ernest Morris. The screenplay by Brian Clemens and Eldon Howard is a loose adaptation of the the 1843 short story of the same title by Edgar Allan Poe.
Edgar Marsh, a shy librarian...
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| x The Tell-Tale Heart |
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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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| x The Student of Prague |
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Faust |
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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| William Wilson | |||
| x The Sealed Room |
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The Cask of Amontillado |
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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| x The Raven |
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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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| x The Raven |
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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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| x The Raven |
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The Raven |
"The Raven" is a 2007 thriller film by director David DeCoteau, based on Edgar Allan Poe's writing.
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| The Masque of the Red Death | |||
| x The Pit and the Pendulum |
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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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| x The Pit and the Pendulum |
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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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| x The Pit and the Pendulum |
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The Pit and the Pendulum |
The Pit and the Pendulum is a program from the American radio anthology series Radio Tales. This award-winning anthology series adapted classic works of American and world literature, and was a recipient of funding from the National Endowment for...
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| x The Oblong Box |
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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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| x The Murders in the Rue Morgue |
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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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| x The Masque of the Red Death |
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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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| Hop-Frog | |||
| x The Mansion of Madness |
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The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether |
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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| x The Living Dead |
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The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether |
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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| The Black Cat | |||
| The Suicide Club | |||
| x The House of Usher |
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The Fall of 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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| x The Fall of the House of Usher |
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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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| x The Fall Of The House Of Usher |
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The Fall of the House of Usher |
The Fall of the House of Usher is an opera by Peter Hammill (music) and Chris Judge Smith (libretto). It is based on the short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. It has never been performed live in its entirety, but Hammill sang a suite of...
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| x The Fall of the House of Usher |
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The Fall of the House of Usher |
The Fall of the House of Usher is a program from the American radio anthology series Radio Tales. This award-winning anthology series adapted classic works of American and world literature, and was a recipient of funding from the National Endowment...
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| x The Black Cat |
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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.
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| x The Black Cat |
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The Black Cat |
The Black Cat is the eleventh episode of the second season of Masters of Horror, directed by Stuart Gordon from a screenplay by Gordon and Dennis Paoli. It was broadcast on Showtime on January 19, 2007. The DVD was released on July 17, 2007.
The...
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| x Tell-Tale |
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The Tell-Tale Heart |
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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| x Spirits of the Dead |
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Never Bet the Devil Your Head |
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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| William Wilson | |||
| Metzengerstein | |||
| x Shadow of the Raven |
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The Fall of the House of Usher |
Shadow of the Raven is Nox Arcana's eighth full-length album in four years. This time the composers Joseph Vargo and William Piotrowski honor Edgar Allan Poe, the author of "The Masque of the Red Death", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of...
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| The Raven | |||
| The Tell-Tale Heart | |||
| The Masque of the Red Death | |||
| The Murders in the Rue Morgue | |||
| x Revenge in the House of Usher |
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The Fall of the House of Usher | |
| x Murders in the Rue Morgue |
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The 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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| x Maniac |
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The Black Cat |
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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| x Manfish | The Tell-Tale Heart |
Manfish is an adventure film, released by United Artists in 1956. Filmed in Jamaica, it was released in Great Britain as Calypso. It was based on the stories "The Gold-Bug" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe. Actor John Bromfield starred...
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| The Gold-Bug | |||
| x Lunacy |
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The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether |
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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| The Premature Burial | |||
| x La Chute de la maison Usher |
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The Fall of the House of 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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| The Oval Portrait | |||
| x La chute de la maison Usher | The Fall of the House of Usher |
La chute de la maison Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) is an unfinished opera in one act (divided into two scenes) by Claude Debussy to his own libretto, based on Edgar Allan Poe's short story The Fall of the House of Usher. The composer...
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| x Ken Russell's Fall of the Louse of Usher |
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The Fall of the House 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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| x House of Usher |
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The Fall of the 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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| x Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue |
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The 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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| The Phantom of the Opera | |||
| x Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia |
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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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| x Castle of the Walking Dead |
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The Pit and the Pendulum | |
| x An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe | The Pit and the Pendulum |
An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe (1972) is a 52-minute film which features Vincent Price, in front of a live audience, reciting four of Edgar Allan Poe's stories.
The stories included are: "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Sphinx", "The Cask of Amontillado...
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| The Tell-Tale Heart | |||
| The Cask of Amontillado | |||
| x (The System of) Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether | The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether |
"The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether" is a 1976 single by The Alan Parsons Project which first appeared on their album Tales of Mystery and Imagination. The single reached number 37 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 62 in Canada.
It...
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