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- The Avenging Conscience or “Thou Shalt Not Kill” (1914) Director: D.W. Griffith. Preserved by the BFI National Archive. D.W. Griffith’s silent film isn’t coy about its inspirations – its protagonist (Henry B. Walthall) finds a reflection of his besotted feelings for a young woman (Blanche Sweet) in Poe’s poem ‘Annabel Lee’ and later, denied his uncle’s (Spottiswoode Aitken) permission to marry her, draws murderous inspiration from Poe’s short story ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’.
- The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) Director: Jean Epstein. The stark black-and-white photography of this French film, based on Poe’s short story, emphasises the ghostliness of the desolate mansion in which it’s set, a contrast to the ornate richness of Roger Corman’s version released 32 years later.
- The Tell-Tale Heart (1953) Director: Ted Parmelee. This animated story of nighttime murder, carried out under the cover of darkness, is dominated by inky shadows and creeping silhouettes.
- Pit and the Pendulum (1961) Director: Roger Corman. Director Roger Corman reworks Poe’s tale of solitary confinement under the Spanish Inquisition into a riff on ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’, folding in much of its mood and many of its themes – mysterious illnesses, family homes with a malignant atmosphere, hereditary pain, women buried alive.
A list of horror and suspense film adaptations of the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Note, these are primarily true adaptations of the works and not just inspired by or loosely based. Brought to you by Eric Myford, author of The Encyclopedia of Horror & Suspense Movies book series...
Oct 14, 2023 · Netflix's The Fall of the House of Usher is out now, but there are more Edgar Allen Poe movies and TV shows to binge. See the best Poe adaptations to stream now.
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Oct 11, 2023 · Mike Flanagan’s adaptation of “The Fall of the House of Usher” is coming to Netflix this week, but he isn’t the only horror auteur to take on Edgar Allan Poe. Here are the best Poe ...
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Adaptations. The Raven (1935), starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. House of Usher (1960), directed by Roger Corman. In the 1930s and 1940s, Universal Studios adapted several Poe stories—and used others as inspirational jump-off points—primarily starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff.
Oct 11, 2023 · A common solution to the problem of Poe’s stories being too short to properly adapt into a feature film has been to combine several of them into an anthology.
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Jan 20, 2023 · In honor of the birthday of Edgar Allan Poe, we're looking at the top ten cinematic adaptations of the horror master's terrifying works.
