Edgar Allan Poe

The Avenging Conscience or “Thou Shalt Not Kill” (1914)

The Avenging Conscience or “Thou Shalt Not Kill” (1914)
Rating: ★★½
Jun 9, 2014Silent Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
The first full length Edgar Allan Poe film from D.W. Griffith of The Birth of a Nation fame. Rather than Roger Corman's brooding Gothicism, Griffith waters Poe’s melancholia down to a banal Christian morality play
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The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Rating: ★★★½
May 23, 2012Silent Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
Early silent adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story that treats the story liberally, drops Poe's mood of desolation and despair for one more of melancholy, but holds an undeniable style
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Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)

Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
Rating: ★★
Dec 22, 2015Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation/Trained Killer Ape
A version of Edgar Allan Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue that was made for the original 3D fad. That is to say, it is more a case of some elements of the story having been shuffled around into a new story with Karl Malden as a mad zookeeper using a hypnotised ape to kill women
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Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Rating: ★★★
Jul 17, 2012Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation/Deranged Nobleman
The second of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films with Vincent Price. This feels too much as though Corman was trying to make another House of Usher, nevertheless it creates its own thunderously overwrought atmosphere, even if it has little to do with the Poe story
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The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)

The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
Rating: ★★
Oct 19, 2002Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation/Haunting
The eighth and last of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe adaptations. Some claim this tale of possession by a late wife is the best but it feels an uninspired rehash of the plot elements from Corman's other Poe films.
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Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1968)

Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1968)
Rating: ★★★
Mar 1, 2001Edgar Allan Poe Anthology
Trilogy of Edgar Allan Poe tales from three European directors. Roger Vadim's opening episode drags but both Louis Malle and Federico Fellini deliver standout works in their respective segments
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The Fall of the House of Usher (1979)

The Fall of the House of Usher (1979)
Rating: ★
Aug 21, 2012Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
Maybe the worst Edgar Allan Poe adaptation ever, a version made for tv that fails utterly to project any of Poe's gloom and despair, while a badly overacting Martin Landau is disastrously miscast as Roderick Usher
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The Haunting of Morella (1990)

The Haunting of Morella (1990)
Rating: ★
Jan 6, 2026Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation/Resurrected Wife
An adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story produced by Roger Corman. Alas giving it to exploitation director Jim Wynorski, who likes to add really well stacked women to everything does, kills all of Poe’s atmosphere
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The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)

The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)
Rating: ★★
Sep 5, 2012Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation/Inquisition Horrors
Stuart Gordon's adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story gets full marks for being set during the Spanish Inquisition. On the other hand, Gordon's unserious splatter heavy approach and a campy performance from Lance Henriksen deflates the material
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The Pit & the Pendulum (2009)

The Pit & the Pendulum (2009)
Rating: ★
Nov 29, 2012Hypnotism Experiments/Killings
Another of David De Coteau's cheap homoerotic horror films. This has almost no connection to Edgar Allan Poe's story about a man tied up beneath a descending pendulum and is instead an absurd psycho-sexual film about a series of hypnotism murders in a big mansion
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Eliza Graves (2014)

Eliza Graves (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Nov 22, 2015Victorian Asylum Taken Over by the Inmates
Brad Anderson adapts an Edgar Allan Poe story about an asylum where the inmates are posing as the staff. This is lush period piece with an amazing cast line-up – the only surprise is that it did no box-office
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Extraordinary Tales (2015)

Extraordinary Tales (2015)
Rating: ★★★
Nov 4, 2015Anthology of Edgar Allan Poe Stories/Animation
An anthology of Edgar Allan Poe tales narrated by Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi and others. Each episode is in a different style, where the succinctness allows the stories to be told as written
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The 12 Slays of Christmas (2016)

The 12 Slays of Christmas (2016)
Rating: ★
Dec 23, 2024Christmas Horror Anthology
From Troma films, this is an anthology made up of twelve Christmas-themed short horror films for what supposed leading indie directors - so acclaimed I've only heard of two of them before
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The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)

The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)
Rating: ★★★
Nov 18, 2023Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
Mike Flanagan mini-series that expands on the story to incorporate a host of other Poe stories. More like another of Mike Flanagan’s cross-generational ghost stories by way of tv’s Succession with a lot of Poe-esque margin notes
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