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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.
American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe has had significant influence in television and film. Many are adaptations of Poe's work, others merely reference it.
Innocence and Sin are mutated but conscious versions of the stories of Jesus and Satan, the meaning and intent of their stories lost to history and thereby warped by the cosmic energy to show them as brothers. But artifacts of the old world remain....and we have to uncover and destroy them before it's too late.
Oct 14, 2023 · There's an incredible treasure trove of film and television adaptations of Poe's work. Since filmmaking's infancy, directors have taken on the writer's work to varying degrees of success.
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Jan 6, 2023 · Co-star Harry Melling plays an eccentric student with literary sensibilities unwelcome at the rigid military academy: a young and fictionalized Edgar Allan Poe. The gentle yet opinionated...
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