Edgar Allan PoeFilmography

Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum

Seven students participating in an experiment designed to eliminate the sensation of pain begin to question the validity of...

Tell Tale

Josh Lucas stars as a man whose heart transplant leads him on a frenzied journey to find the killer of his heart's previous...

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tomb

Wes Bentley, Eric Roberts, and Michael Madsen headline first-time feature filmmaker Michael Straininger's story of a...

The Raven

A masked killer crashes a lavish masquerade party in director David DeCoteau's modern updating of Edgar Allan Poe's classic...

The Broken

A woman is thrust into a world where everything is subtly unfamiliar in this edgy thriller from writer and director Sean...

Usher

Curtis Harrington, a perennial cult figure who made such atmospheric low-budget horror films as Night Tide, Queen of Blood,...

The Mesmerist

Science allows a man to cheat death and continue to be a thorn in the side of his family in this dark comedy. Mr. Valdemar...

The Tell-Tale Heart

Edgar Allan Poe's timeless tale of murder and madness arrives onscreen in filmmaker Scott Mansfield's loyal adaptation of The...

Morella

Edgar Lynden is a prison hospital doctor who conducts some unauthorized and certainly unethical medical experiments in...

Two Evil Eyes

Two well-known directors each adapt stories by Edgar Allen Poe in this horror drama. George Romero's "The Facts in the Case...

Haunting Fear

Exploitation king Fred Olen Ray bulldozes Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Premature Burial" in this sleazy direct-to-video...

The Pit and the Pendulum

Only loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's classic short story, this horror film was filmed on location in a spooky Italian...

The Masque of the Red Death

A contemporary version of the masterpiece by Edgar Allan Poe follows a photographer (Michelle McBride) as she spies on a...

The Haunting of Morella

One of a few abortive attempts by B-movie legend Roger Corman to recapture the questionable glory of his 60s Edgar Allan Poe...

Buried Alive

Produced for cable TV, this pedestrian thriller (also known as Till Death Do Us Part) purports to be a riff on Edgar Allen...

The House of Usher

Without a doubt the weirdest adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe tale in recent memory, this lurid production features a raging,...

Buried Alive

Although this bloody, relentlessly weird South African production purports to be a modern-day treatment of the works of Edgar...

The Masque of the Red Death

A remake of Roger Corman's 1964 adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe tale was produced by Corman but directed by Larry Brand....

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Edgar Allan Poe's classic 1841 detective story Murders in the Rue Morgue was adapted for television by David Epstein. Two...

The Pendulum, the Pit, and the Hope

The Fall of the House of Usher

A maddened Roderick Usher (Martin Landau) and his dying sister Madeline (Dimitra Arliss) are the only surviving members of...

The Black Cat

Italian goremeister Lucio Fulci applies his characteristic touch to the Edgar Allan Poe tale (of which very little remains...

Gold Bug

Based on the story by Edgar Allen Poe, this tells of a young boy searching for treasure on a deserted island...or so he...

Neurosis

The Fall of the House of Usher

Fall of the House of Usher

The Rue Morgue Massacres

In this gory horror movie one of society's pariahs finds the will to live when he receives the tender, innocent affections...

Mansion of Madness

This bizarre Mexican production is loosely based on The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Feather by Edgar Allan Poe. The...

Edgar Allan Poe's The Oval Portrait

This low-budget Mexican production (originally produced for television) is a tepid but fairly accurate adaptation of Edgar...

Web of the Spider

In this remake of his own La Danza Macabra, director Antonio Margheriti casts Anthony Franciosa as writer Alan Foster, who...

Murders in the Rue Morgue

The fourth film to explore Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale, this clever adaptation takes some rather broad liberties with the...

An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe

Not really a movie, An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe is a videotaped 90-minute TV special starring Vincent Price. Appearing...

The Tell-Tale Heart

Steve Carver directs Sam Jaffe in Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of man who kills his torturous boss and stores the body...

Apokal

This German language film is said to be loosely based on a story by Edgar Allen Poe. It is difficult to say, as there is no...

The Oblong Box

When Sir Edward Markham (Alastair Williamson) is horribly disfigured by African natives, he is kept chained and out of sight...

Spirits of the Dead

Released in Europe as Histoires Extraordinaires and Tre Passi Nel Delirio, this is a portmanteau picture, comprised of three...

Castle of the Walking Dead

Just the thing for spooky Halloween-night viewing, this good-looking German film from director Harald Reinl tells the story...

The Black Cat

Harold Hoffman directed this Dallas-made oddity about a man named Lew (Robert Frost) who receives a black cat from his wife...

Cask of Amontillado

In the early- to mid-1960s, the University of Michigan shipped out several half-hour TV series to local stations. The best of...

Scream of Death

The Tomb of Ligeia

Once again Vincent Price stars for director Roger Corman in The Tomb of Ligeia, the last of Corman's eight Edgar Allen Poe...

The Masque of the Red Death

Though based on two Edgar Allen Poe stories, Masque of the Red Death relies more upon its mood and atmosphere than its story...

The Raven

Although Roger Corman narrowly managed to avoid self-mockery in his pulpy, flamboyant adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales,...

Tales of Terror

Roger Corman's Tales of Terror stars Vincent Price in a trio of short stories, liberally adapted by Richard Matheson from the...

The Premature Burial

Roger Corman's success with low-budget adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe tales continued with this third installment, the first...

Pit and the Pendulum

American-International's standing "haunted castle" set is exhibited to peak advantage in Roger Corman's Pit & the Pendulum....

Obras maestras del terror

The Fall of the House of Usher

The first of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films, Fall of the House of Usher was originally released as simply...

The Tell-Tale Heart

Horror tale inspired by the classic Edgar Allan Poe story, in which a writer fantasizes murdering his friend over a beautiful...

Calypso

The culture of a Caribbean island drenched in sun and rhythmic music, and the calypso sounds themselves are the main focus of...

The Fall of the House of Usher

Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe's macabre tale of family curses, premature burial, and horrible revenge, was...

The Living Coffin

The Living Coffin is a Mexican filmization of that old Edgar Allan Poe standby The Premature Burial. A seriously ill woman is...

Manfish

Edgar Allan Poe's The Gold Bug and The Tell-Tale Heart were updated and woven together into a single narrative in the...

Phantom of the Rue Morgue

Warner Bros.' followup to its 3D hit House of Wax, Phantom of the Rue Morgue bears only the slightest resemblance to its...

The Fall of the House of Usher

Filmed in 1950, this British adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's Fall of the House of Usher made the U.S. art-house rounds in...

Histoires Extraordinaires

The French Histoires Extraordinaires is an "omnibus" film in the traditon of the English Somerset Maugham anthologies and...

The Mystery of Marie Roget

The Mystery of Marie Roget is more faithful to its Edgar Allan Poe original than most Universal films of its ilk, even though...

The Black Cat

1941's The Black Cat is neither a remake of the 1934 Karloff-Lugosi film of the same name, nor does it bear the slightest...

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Raven

Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff team up in this excellent 1935 chiller. Lugosi is crazed brain-surgeon Dr. Richard Vollin who...

The Crime of Dr. Crespi

One of several Liberty productions picked up for release by Republic, The Crime of Dr. Crespi is a modern-dress adaptation of...

The Tell-Tale Heart

This 51-minute adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's Tell Tale Heart was a labor of love for co-producer-director Brian Desmond...

Bucket of Blood

This horror film, based on Poe's classic story "The Tell-Tale Heart," chronicles the mental break-down of a psychotic who...

Maniac

Produced and directed by exploitation specialist Dwain Esper and written by Mrs. Esper, Hildegarde Stade, this ultra...

The Black Cat

The first cinematic teaming of horror greats Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a bizarre, haunting, and relentlessly eerie...

Jaws of Justice

Filmed at picturesque Lake Tahoe, NV, this ultra-low-budget dog melodrama starred one of Rin-Tin-Tin's better successors,...

Murders in the Rue Morgue

Having missed the opportunity to direct Frankenstein for Universal, Robert Florey was offered Murders in the Rue Morgue as a...

Unheimliche Geschichten

The Fall of the House of Usher

The French silent film La Chute de la Maison Usher is adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's Fall of the House of Usher. Director...

The Fall of the House of Usher

The Tell-Tale Heart

Der Student von Prag

Considered the magnum-opus of filmmaker/screenwriter Henrik Galeen, and featuring actor Conrad Veit in one of his finest...

Raven

Although Henry B. Walthall (the "Little Colonel" in D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation) made a strong showing as Edgar Allen...