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Crew: Edgar Allan Poe

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

9 June 201426 October 2019

Rating: ★★½

Silent Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Director: D.W. Griffith
Actors: Henry B. Walthall, Spottiswoode Aitken, Blanche Sweet, George Siegmann, …
Category: Horror

The Black Cat (1934)

4 December 200024 June 2022

Rating: ★★★½

Revenge and Satanism

Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, David Manners
Category: Horror

The Black Cat (1981)

9 April 200026 November 2019

Rating: ★

Black Cat Murders/Italian Horror

Director: Lucio Fulci
Actors: Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, David Warbeck
Category: Horror

Castle of Blood (1964)

15 April 201317 February 2022

Rating: ★★★

Italian Gothic/Haunted Castle

Director: Antonio Margheriti
Actors: Barbara Steele, Arturo Dominici, Umberto Raho
Category: Horror

The City Under the Sea (1965)

12 July 200021 April 2020

Rating: ★★

Lost Underwater City

Director: Jacques Tourneur
Actors: Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, David Tomlinson, John Le Mesurier
Category: Science Fiction

Edgar Allan Poe’s Lighthouse Keeper (2016)

27 December 201724 September 2020

Rating: ★★

Poe Adaptation/Haunted Lighthouse

Director: Benjamin Cooper
Actors: Matt O'Neill, Vernon Wells
Category: Horror

Eliza Graves (2014)

22 November 201512 March 2020

Rating: ★★★

Victorian Asylum Taken Over by the Inmates

Director: Brad Anderson
Actors: Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, Kate Beckinsale, David Thewlis, …
Category: Horror

Extraordinary Tales (2015)

4 November 20157 August 2022

Rating: ★★★

Anthology of Edgar Allan Poe Stories/Animation

Director: Raul Garcia
Actors: Stephen Hughes, Cornelia Funke, Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, …
Category: Horror

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

23 May 201210 November 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Silent Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Director: Jean Epstein
Category: Horror

The Fall of the House of Usher (1979)

21 August 201210 November 2020

Rating: 0­

Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Director: James L. Conway
Actors: Martin Landau, Robert Hays, Charlene Tilton, Ray Walston, …
Category: Horror

The Haunted Palace (1963)

15 December 20021 July 2021

Rating: ★★★

Possession/H.P. Lovecraft Adaptation

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Vincent Price, Debra Paget, Lon Chaney Jr, Leo Gordon, …
Category: Horror

The House of Usher (1960)

20 June 201229 October 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Harry Ellerbe
Category: Horror

The House of Usher (1989)

20 May 20147 August 2022

Rating: ★

Modernised Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Director: Alan Birkinshaw
Actors: Oliver Reed, Romy Windsor, Donald Pleasence
Category: Horror

House of Usher (2008)

18 January 201130 November 2020

Rating: ★

Softcore Gay Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Director: David DeCoteau
Actors: Michael Cardelle, Frank Mentier, Bart Voitila
Category: Horror

Lady Usher (2020)

22 May 20227 August 2022

Rating: 0­

Gender-Flipped Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Director: George Adams
Actors: Billie D. Merritt, John Tupy, Theresa Santiago, Michael Gibbons, …
Category: Horror

Ligeia (2009)

14 January 201222 July 2021

Rating: ★

Modernised Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Director: Michael Staininger
Actors: Wes Bentley, Sofya Skya, Michael Madsen, Eric Roberts, …
Category: Horror

Masque of Red Death (1989)

1 June 20007 August 2022

Rating: ★

Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Director: Larry Brand
Actors: Adrian Paul, Patrick MacNee, Maria Ford
Category: Horror

The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

9 February 200026 February 2022

Rating: ★★★½

Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Vincent Price, Jane Asher, Hazel Court, Patrick Magee, …
Category: Horror

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

1 February 20018 March 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Mad Scientist

Director: Robert Florey
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Leon Waycoff, Sidney Fox, Bert Roach, …
Category: Horror

The Oblong Box (1969)

5 January 20019 March 2019

Rating: ★★

Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Director: Gordon Hessler
Actors: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Aleister Williamson, Peter Arne, …
Category: Horror

Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)

22 December 20158 March 2019

Rating: ★★

Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation/Trained Killer Ape

Director: Roy Del Ruth
Actors: Karl Malden, Steve Forrest, Claude Dauphin, Patricia Medina, …
Category: Horror

Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

17 July 20127 November 2019

Rating: ★★★

Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation/Deranged Nobleman

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, Luana Anders, …
Category: Horror

The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)

5 September 201217 July 2022

Rating: ★★

Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation/Inquisition Horrors

Director: Stuart Gordon
Actors: Lance Henriksen, Rona De Ricci, Jonathan Fuller, Frances Bay, …
Category: Horror

The Pit & the Pendulum (2009)

29 November 20121 June 2022

Rating: ★

Hypnotism Experiments/Killings

Director: David DeCoteau
Actors: Lorielle New, Bart Voitila, Amy Paffrath, Jason-Shane Scott, …
Category: Horror

Premature Burial (1962)

5 May 200211 June 2020

Rating: ★★½

Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Alan Napier
Category: Horror

The Raven (1935)

15 May 200111 July 2019

Rating: ★★★

Demented Edgar Allan Poe Fan

Director: Lew Landers
Actors: Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Irene Ware, Lester Matthews, …
Category: Horror

The Raven (1963)

5 September 200211 June 2020

Rating: ★★★

War Between Magicians Comedy

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, …
Category: Horror

Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989)

1 January 200110 December 2020

Rating: 0­

Arabian Nights Adventure

Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Actors: Lou Ferrigno, John Steiner, Roland Wybenga, Haruhiko Yamanouchi, …
Category: Fantasy

Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1968)

1 March 20019 March 2021

Rating: ★★★

Edgar Allan Poe Anthology

Director: Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, Federico Fellini
Actors: Jane Fonda, Terence Stamp, Peter Fonda, Vincent Price, …
Category: Horror

Tales of Terror (1962)

14 April 20017 November 2019

Rating: ★★★

Edgar Allan Poe Anthology

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Basil Rathbone, Maggie Pierce, …
Category: Horror

The Tell-Tale Heart (1960)

27 February 202027 February 2020

Rating: ★★½

Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Director: Ernest Morris
Actors: Laurence Payne, Adrienne Corri, Dermot Walsh
Category: Horror

The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)

19 October 200217 April 2022

Rating: ★★

Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation/Haunting

Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Westbrook, Derek Francis, …
Category: Horror

Two Evil Eyes (1990)

15 February 200110 June 2021

Rating: ★★

Edgar Allan Poe Anthology

Director: George A. Romero, Dario Argento
Actors: Harvey Keitel, Adrienne Barbeau, E.G. Marshall, Tom Atkins, …
Category: Horror

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