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Since 2004 New York animation producer Michael Sporn has been working on Poe, an animated feature about Poe's life and works.
Nov 12, 2010 · This essay traces the discourse that developed around the biographical legend of Edgar Allan Poe between his death and the early 1930s, when Universal Pictures produced a series of horror films adapted from Poe's literary works.
- Kyle Dawson Edwards
- 2011
- 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.
- The Haunted Palace
- The Masque of The Red Death
- The Tomb of Ligeia
Corman and AIP really stretched the Poe connection with this entry, which takes its title and absolutely nothing else from a poem and instead adapts a novella—“The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”—from another pioneering horror author, H.P. Lovecraft. Price plays both an evil 18th century sorcerer, Joseph Curwen, and his great-great-grandson Charles De...
Many consider this the best of the Corman-Poe series, and it’s easy to see why: with this surreal, unnerving tale of the malevolent Prince Prospero holding revels inside his castle as a horrifying plague lays waste to the world outside, Corman elevated everything about his series—the production design, the screenwriting, the metaphorical underpinni...
Benefiting from location shooting at a cemetery and other real places (instead of the usual studio-bound sets), The Tomb of Ligeia finds Corman returning to the series’ roots for its final entry. The story on which the film is based is very short, so the movie is almost a “greatest hits” from the previous films: Price plays the ailing Verden Fell, ...
Filmmaker Roger Corman discusses some of the challenges he faced in bringing Edgar Allan Poe's stories to life in a full-length film.
survey traced the development of Poe cinema through the significant experimental films of the. 1910’s and 1920’s through the commercial Poe endeavors in the Golden Age of Hollywood and. the studio system. In film theory, not every filmmaker in the history of cinema qualifies as an.
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Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. His father, named David Poe Jr., and his mother, named Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, were touring actors. Both parents died in 1811, and Poe became an orphan before he was 3 years old.
