Films based upon Edgar Allan Poe's works



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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

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x Screenplay by:: Frank E. Woods

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

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x Screenplay by:: Hanns Heinz Ewers,; Alfred de Musset

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

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x Screenplay by:: Melville Webber,; James Sibley Watson

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

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x Produced by:: Jean Epstein

x Screenplay by:: Luis Buñuel,; Jean Epstein

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

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x Produced by:: Carl Laemmle Jr.

x Screenplay by:: John Huston,; Tom Reed,; Dale Van Every

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

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x Produced by:: Gabriel Pascal

x Screenplay by:: Richard Oswald

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

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x Produced by:: Dwain Esper

x Screenplay by:: Hildegarde Stadie

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

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x Screenplay by:: David Boehm

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

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x Screenplay by:: Robert Neville,; Robert Lees

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

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x Screenplay by:: Doane R. Hoag

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

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x Screenplay by:: Fred Grable,; Bill Scott

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

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x Produced by:: James H. Nicholson,; Samuel Z. Arkoff

x Screenplay by:: Richard Matheson

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

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x Produced by:: James H. Nicholson,; Samuel Z. Arkoff

x Screenplay by:: Richard Matheson

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

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x Produced by:: Roger Corman

x Screenplay by:: Richard Matheson

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

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x Screenplay by:: Charles Beaumont

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

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x Produced by:: Samuel Z. Arkoff,; Pat Green

x Screenplay by:: Robert Towne

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

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x Screenplay by:: Ruth Carter,; Romano Migliorini,; Cesare Mancini,; more ▼

Castle of the Walking Dead

x Initial release date:: 1967

x Directed by:: Harald Reinl

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x Screenplay by:: Manfred R. Köhler

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

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x Screenplay by:: Louis Malle,; Roger Vadim,; Federico Fellini,; more ▼

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

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x Produced by:: Gordon Hessler

x Screenplay by:: Lawrence Huntington

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

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x Produced by:: Louis M. Heyward

x Screenplay by:: Christopher Wicking,; Henry Slesar

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

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Revenge in the House of Usher

x Initial release date:: 1982

x Directed by:: Jesús Franco

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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.

x Initial release date:: Dec 7, 1986

x Directed by:: Jeannot Szwarc

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x Screenplay by:: David Epstein

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

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x Produced by:: Achille Manzotti

x Screenplay by:: George A. Romero,; Dario Argento,; Franco Ferrini,; more ▼

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

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x Produced by:: Albert Band,; Charles Band

x Screenplay by:: Dennis Paoli

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

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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...

x Initial release date:: Nov 3, 2005

x Directed by:: Jan Švankmajer

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x Produced by:: Jaromír Kallista

x Screenplay by:: Jan Švankmajer

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

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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

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x Screenplay by:: Matthew Jason Walsh

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

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x Initial release date:: 2008

x Directed by:: Stephen Conley,; John Dur

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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

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x Produced by:: Ridley Scott,; Tony Scott

x Screenplay by:: Dave Callaham

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