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Post by klasekfilmfan on Dec 20, 2019 23:56:29 GMT
Name as many films as you can think of based on the Great writings of Edgar Allan Poe?
His film adaptations tend to spark some unique cinema
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Post by petrolino on Dec 21, 2019 1:07:37 GMT
There's 'Murders In The Rue Morgue' (1932), Robert Florey's florid exercise in stylistic adrenaline deemed sacreligious and degenerating by the Catholic Church who believed Bela Lugosi to be possessed by the devil.
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Post by politicidal on Dec 21, 2019 1:32:30 GMT
I saw a few of the Vincent Price films based off his work quite recently. Namely The Pit and the Pendulum, House of Usher, and The Haunted Palace. There was also a scifi movie called War-Gods of the Deep which apparently was based off a short story by Poe called City-by-the-Sea. It's not good.  |
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Post by biker1 on Dec 21, 2019 2:22:05 GMT
the tell-tale heart (1960-uk)
Commonly overlooked gothic tale from the UK, a sexually repressed Victorian man kills his best friend in a jealous rage over the beautiful woman next door. The first half of this cheap b&w is terrific, before slipping into familiar guilt ridden angst. Youtuber.
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Post by koskiewicz on Dec 21, 2019 16:48:47 GMT
"Masque of the Red Death" is one of my all time favorite films. Also, "The Pit and the Pendulum" is outstanding. And the short story trilogy of "The Spirits of the Dead" is also noteworthy.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Dec 21, 2019 18:34:17 GMT
The Raven is good campy fun featuring Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, and a young Jack Nicholson.
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Post by teleadm on Dec 21, 2019 20:18:25 GMT
The Roger Corman movies are entertaining, and takes big liberties from the Poe source material.   1908, wasn't based on Doyle, except the characters, but Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue", could be the first film based on Poe. James Mason narrates an animated version of The Tell-Tale Heart 1953: |
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Post by klasekfilmfan on Feb 23, 2020 19:06:53 GMT
I remember liking the Roger Corman versions in the sixties, especially The House of Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), Tales of Terror (1962), and The Mask of the Red Death (1964). Corman was a genius at being able to do more with less than anyone else back in those days. But I've always felt that Poe deserved a really superb adaptation of one of this works, given that he was such a wonderful artist. I think the problem is that so many of the films made from his works are adapted from short stories and somehow the length added to make them into a feature film never seems to equal Poe's skill in writing his stories. But I do remember liking those particular, back in the day. I also remember enjoying The Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954), primarily because of the cast. Haven't seen any of those films since the sixties, though, so I'm not sure how I'd feel today. Oh, and I just remembered The Black Cat (1934), directed by the gifted Edgar Ulmer, which I thought was a very good adaptation. And I would love to see Robert Florey's Murders in the Rue Morgue, which petrolino mentioned. Florey was also a gifted director.
EDIT: Oh, I misread your OP, klasekfilmfan , and listed my favorites - so sorry. There are so many titles though, all based upon Poe's short stories, so maybe it's best I stuck with the ones I liked. Hi Spider! I enjoyed your post. It's a fair point that his short stories make difficult feature length adaptations to film. I'd have liked to see more feature-length films the same vein of 1968's SPIRITS OF THE DEAD, which featured a powerful team of legendary directors, Fellini, Malle, and Vadim, each of whom direct a short story within a feature-length film. |
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