Filmography from : Edgar Allan Poe
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The Tell-Tale Heart, John La Tier, 2016...
Stonehearst Asylum, Brad Anderson, 2014A recent medical school grad who takes a position at a mental institution soon finds himself taken with one of his colleagues -- though he has no initial idea of a recent, horrifying staffing change....
Extraordinary Tales, Raul Garcia, 2013
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Tell-Tale, Michael Cuesta, 2009...
Ligeia, Michael Staininger, 2009Successful writer and scholar Jonathan Merrick falls under the spell of the irresistible, bewitchingly beautiful Ligeia. She's fighting a fatal illness and she will stop at nothing to defeat death, her one true enemy. She steals other people's souls and on her quest to immortality she tricks Jonathan into supporting her work, breaking him apart from his fiancé Rowena and pulling him into her dark, mysterious world. They settle down in an old...
House of Usher, David DeCoteau, 2008
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The Raven, David DeCoteau, 2007
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Sílení, Jan Svankmajer, 2005A horror movie testing two approaches to running an insane asylum - absolute freedom versus control and punishment - within the context of a world that combines the worst of both. Jean Berlot, a young man subject to a nightmare of being forced into a straitjacket by two orderlies, is befriended by a marquis. At the marquis's estate, Jean witnesses a black Mass, buries someone alive, and is invited to try preventive therapy. He's willing to enter...
The Mummy Lives, Gerry O'Hara, 1993A mummy returns from the dead and becomes obsessed with a woman which he thinks is the reincarnation of his dead lover....
The Pit and the Pendulum, Stuart Gordon, 1991...
Due occhi diabolici, Dario Argento (segment 'The Black Cat'), George A Romero (segment 'The Facts in the Case of Mr Valdemar') (as George Romero), 1990"The Facts About Mr. Valdeman." A woman's husband is on his deathbed, and a psychiatrist with whom she's having an affair hypnotizes him so they can get him to sign all his money over to his wife before he dies. The husband dies when he is still in a trance and becomes stuck between the two worlds, and seeks revenge and release. "The Black Cat." A forensic photographer resents his girlfriend bringing a stray cat home. He dispatches the little...
Buried Alive, Gérard Kikoïne (as Gerard Kikoine), 1989...
Il gatto nero, Luigi Cozzi (as Lewis Coates), 1989A horror movie in production resurrects a witch called Levana, who is the main evil character in the movie. Levana tries to take over our world so that evil can be spread everywhere, but the only one in her way is Anne, who is to play Levana in the movie. Now, the battle of good and evil begins....
Revenge in the House of Usher, Jesús Franco, Olivier Mathot (uncredited), 1983
A traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a mysterious family curse: The brother's senses have become painfully acute, while his sister has become nearly catatonic. As the visitor's stay at the mansion continues, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax, and he must choose between his concern for his hosts' safety, and his own....
Gatto nero, Lucio Fulci, 1981Robert Miles is a psychic that can communicate with the dead. He also has the ability to control the mind of his cat (who incidentally is black). He uses the cat to take vengeance upon his enemies. A photographer who happen to be working for the local constables begins to notice cat scratches on some of the accident victims that are turning up. She pays a visit to Miles (kitty just happens to be present) and conveys her suspicions of the cat's...
La noche de los asesinos, Jesús Franco, 1974Horror mystery about the residents of a Louisiana castle who are being murdered by a masked killer. When the family arrives for the reading of Marion's will, his wife is strapped to the face of a cliff and drowned by the tide. More murders follow, and as Inspector Bore (Vicente Roca) investigates, he discovers some dark secrets in the family's past....
Il tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave, Sergio Martino, 1972Oliviero is a burned-out writer, living at his estate near Venice, his dead mother dominating his imagination. He is also a degenerate: sleeps with his maid and his ex-student, hosts Bacchanalia for local hippies, and humiliates his wife Irina in front of strangers. She lives in terror. When a young woman is murdered, police suspect Oliviero. Things get complicated when his young, beautiful, and self-confident niece, Floriana, pays an unexpected...
Murders in the Rue Morgue, Gordon Hessler, 1971LOVE and MURDER are the two consuming passions of the Rue Morgue!...
An Evening of Edgar Allan Poe, Kenneth Johnson (as Ken Johnson), 1970Vincent Price recites four Edgar Allen Poe stories: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Sphinx, The Cask of Amontillado, and The Pit and the Pendulum....
The Oblong Box, Gordon Hessler, 1969Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town....
Matthew Hopkins: Witchfinder General, Michael Reeves, 1968
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Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel, Harald Reinl, 1967In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor in order to attain immortal life....
The Black Cat, Harold Hoffman, 1966A mentally unbalanced man is obsessed with the idea that a black cat is possessed. He tortures and kills it. Later, he comes to believe that the cat has returned from the dead to kill him....
5 tombe per un medium, Massimo Pupillo (as Ralph Zucker), 1965An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that he was someone who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims and, in fact, his spirit was roaming the castle at that very moment. Soon occupants of the castle begin to die off in gruesome, violent ways....
Danza macabra, Antonio Margheriti (as Anthony Dawson), Sergio Corbucci (uncredited), 1964A writer accepts a bet that he cannot spend the night alone in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve. Once night falls at the castle, several who had been murdered therein return to life, reliving their deaths and seeking to kill the writer for his blood in a vain attempt to stay alive beyond that one night. Barbara Steele, as one of the living dead, tries to aid his escape from the castle....
The Masque of the Red Death, Roger Corman, 1964Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites several dozen of the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. Prospero orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst a general atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry of a mysterious hooded stranger dressed all in red. Believing the figure to be his master, Satan, Prospero is horrified at the revelation of his true identity....
Horror, Alberto De Martino (as Martin Herbert), 1963The beautiful young daughter of a crazed count fears that she will fall victim to the family curse - to be sacrificed to fulfill an ancient family legend....
The Haunted Palace, Roger Corman, 1963Charles Dexter Ward arrives at a small village to visit the house he inherited from his ancestor who died there 100 years ago....
The Raven, Roger Corman, 1963A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help in this film loosely based on the Edgar Allen Poe poem....
Tales of Terror, Roger Corman, 1962...
The Premature Burial, Roger Corman, 1962An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him....
Pit and the Pendulum, Roger Corman, 1961Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the brutest torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive! Strange things then start to happen in the Medina castle....
The Fall of the House of Usher, Roger Corman, 1960After a long journey, Philip arrives at the Usher mansion seeking his loved one, Madeline. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Madeline and her brother Roderick Usher have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have...
The Black Cat, Albert S Rogell, 1941Honeymooning in Hungary, Joan and Peter Allison share their train compartment with Dr. Vitus Verdegast, a courtly but tragic man who is returning to the remains of the town he defended before becoming a prisoner of war for fifteen years. When their hotel-bound bus crashes in a mountain storm and Joan is injured, the travellers seek refuge in the home, built fortress-like upon the site of a bloody battlefield, of famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig....
The Raven, Lew Landers (as Louis Friedlander), 1935
A brilliant surgeon obsessed with Poe saves the life of a beautiful dancer and goes mad when he can't have her. ...
The Black Cat, Edgar G Ulmer, 1934American honeymooners in Hungary are trapped in the home of a Satan- worshiping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident. ...
Murders in the Rue Morgue, Robert Florey, 1932
In 19th Century Paris, the maniacal Dr. Mirakle abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship. He constantly meets failure as the abducted women die. Medical student Pierre Dupin discovers what Mirakle is doing too late to prevent the abduction of his girlfriend Camille. Now he desperately tries to enlist the help of the police to get her back. ...
Unheimliche Geschichten, Richard Oswald, 1932
A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down....
Unheimliche Geschichten, Richard Oswald, 1919After the old-books shop closes, portraits of the Strumpet, Death, and the Devil come to life and amuse themselves by reading stories--about themselves, of course, in various guises and eras. Four of the stories are literary horror stories (one by Poe, one by R. L. Stevenson), and the last one is a comedy involving a fake haunting....
Haunting Fear, Fred Olen Ray, 0...
Masters of Horror, Stuart Gordon (2 episodes, 2005-2007), Dario Argento (2 episodes, 2005-2006), John Carpenter (2 episodes, 2005-2006), Joe Dante (2 episodes, 2005-2006), Mick Garris (2 episodes, 2005-2006), Tobe Hooper (2 episodes, 2005-2006), John Landis (2 episodes, 2005-2006), Don Coscarelli (1 episode, 2005), Brad Anderson (1 episode, 2006), Larry Cohen (1 episode, 2006), Ernest R Dickerson (1 episode, 2006), William Malone (1 episode, 2006), Lucky McKee (1 episode, 2006), John McNaughton (1 episode, 2006), Takashi Miike (1 episode, 2006), Tom Holland (1 episode, 2007), Peter Medak (1 episode, 2007), Rob Schmidt (1 episode, 2007), Norio Tsuruta (1 episode, 2007), 0Anchor Bay has amassed some of the greatest horror film writers and directors to bring to you the anthology series, "Masters of Horror". For the first time, the foremost names in the horror film genre have joined forces for the series consisting of thirteen one-hour films each season....
The Fall of the House of Usher, James Sibley Watson (as JS Watson Jr), Melville Webber, 0A traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants, Roderick and Madeline Usher, are living under a mysterious family curse: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. As the visitor's stay at the mansion continues, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax....
"Masters of Horror" The Black Cat, Stuart Gordon, 0
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Coffin Baby, Dean Jones, 2013Picking up directly after the events Tobe Hooper's 2003 version of The Toolbox Murders, TBK intensifies the terrifying exploration into one of Hollywood's most twisted and morbid serial killers in the annals of American history. Survivors Nell and Stephen continue their night of hell as they're rushed to the nearby Hollywood Memorial hospital. Meanwhile next-generation, tech-savvy CSI detectives Cole and Barnes coordinate with hard-nosed LAPD...
The Raven, James McTeigue, 2012In the 19th century, a serial killer begins murdering victims using methods from Edgar Allan Poe's stories. Poe himself teams up with a young Baltimore detective to get inside the murder's mind and try and stop more of his fictional works becoming grisly fact. As the hunt intensifies, Poe's own love, Emily Hamilton, becomes a target for the killer....
Sand Sharks, Mark Atkins, 2012An underwater earthquake cracks open a crater deep beneath the ocean’s surface unleashing a prehistoric predator. On the sleepy island of White Sands, local teens drink and party beside a beach bonfire. One of them wanders off after a pretty girl and disappears, leaving only a severed hand behind. It appears it’s been bitten and ripped off by a vicious animal. This looks like a shark bite, but it’s found well above the high tide line,...
Shadow People, Anthony Fankhauser, 2011Sylvain, an engineer cum vigilante inventor, has constructed a device. It is close to functional, but something isn't right. His wife, Mary Anne, is running out of patience. She loathes the woods in which they live and yearns for a return to the city. Problems arise when their already tense situation is exasperated by the appearance of shadow beings, which torment them during the night. Sylvain slowly comes to realize that this is not a...
Oliver Twisted, Dean Gates, 2000The Happ family, Mary (Black) and her two children, Livvy, 18 (Kiesel), and Jeff, 12 (Ahmes), are reasonably happy. They live in a comfortable home just outside of town on a quiet lake. Mary has a good job that requires her to be away from home from time to time, but Livvy and Jeff are generally responsible. All in all the family leads a normal life -- until "Cousin" Oliver (McMahan) joins the family. Institutionalized from birth, Oliver...
Nella stretta morsa del ragno, Antonio Margheriti (as Anthony M Dawson), 1971The journalist Alan Foster makes a bet than he can spend one night at the haunted Blackwood Castle. As he learns, the rumors of ghosts at the castle are indeed true. On All Soul's Eve the ghosts of the castle search for blood to tide them over for another year. In the castle Foster meet and fall in love with Elizabeth Blackwood....
Torture Garden, Freddie Francis, 1967A special sideshow torture exhibit has the power, according to showman Dr. Diablo, to warn people of evil in their futures. As skeptical customers are shown the greed and violence they're hiding, one of them snaps and kills Diablo. When they run off, we see the murder to be staged as part of the show. One of the customers has hung around to see this, and wants to make a deal with Diablo, aka the Devil....
Danza macabra, Antonio Margheriti (as Anthony Dawson), Sergio Corbucci (uncredited), 1964A writer accepts a bet that he cannot spend the night alone in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve. Once night falls at the castle, several who had been murdered therein return to life, reliving their deaths and seeking to kill the writer for his blood in a vain attempt to stay alive beyond that one night. Barbara Steele, as one of the living dead, tries to aid his escape from the castle....
Masters of Horror, Stuart Gordon (2 episodes, 2005-2007), Dario Argento (2 episodes, 2005-2006), John Carpenter (2 episodes, 2005-2006), Joe Dante (2 episodes, 2005-2006), Mick Garris (2 episodes, 2005-2006), Tobe Hooper (2 episodes, 2005-2006), John Landis (2 episodes, 2005-2006), Don Coscarelli (1 episode, 2005), Brad Anderson (1 episode, 2006), Larry Cohen (1 episode, 2006), Ernest R Dickerson (1 episode, 2006), William Malone (1 episode, 2006), Lucky McKee (1 episode, 2006), John McNaughton (1 episode, 2006), Takashi Miike (1 episode, 2006), Tom Holland (1 episode, 2007), Peter Medak (1 episode, 2007), Rob Schmidt (1 episode, 2007), Norio Tsuruta (1 episode, 2007), 0Anchor Bay has amassed some of the greatest horror film writers and directors to bring to you the anthology series, "Masters of Horror". For the first time, the foremost names in the horror film genre have joined forces for the series consisting of thirteen one-hour films each season....
The Mechanical Grave, Jon Keeyes, 0
The year is 1895. Steam-powered ships fly through the air. Clockwork robots have replaced servants. And a grisly murder has taken place in the dark night of New York City. Called to the scene of the ritualistic murder of a young woman, newly appointed police commissioner Teddy Roosevelt discovers Detective Wayne and his police officers power usurped by two special investigators appointed by the White House: Occultist Edgar Allan Poe, a clockwork...
"Masters of Horror" The Black Cat, Stuart Gordon, 0
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