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In the past few years, director Mike Flanagan has embarked on a spooky adaptation tour of sorts.
This latest adaptation is notable due to the sprawling legacy Poe left behind.
Poes work has been featured in horror cinema for almost as long as the genre has existed.
The whole thing reeks of paranoia and of an untrustworthy world looming above to swallow you whole.
The phone is dead.Even the phone is dead.
However, when it did produce horror like 1941sDr.
Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(which was nominated for three Academy Awards) it was something special.
Through a concoction of slow zooms and desperate close-ups, the feeling of guilt in the film becomes inescapable.
Combined with its excellent sound design, this is a Poe adaptation that thrives purely on the authors work.
To match Price, the director hired Barbara Steele, who had starred in Mario BavasBlack Sundaythe year before.
Without Price, it isnt much fun.Tales of Terror?
A solid but uninspired collection of short films.
He is all smirking sadism until, of course, his fate drives him to impotent panic.
Your soul has been dead for a long, long time.
The best of these may be the Daytime Emmywinning The Gold-Bug fromABC Weekend Special.
Its brevity and the confined setting usually left film versions to their own invention.
Its funny but also a bit awe inspiring in its dedication.
