Extraordinary Tales

Feb 28, 2013

1h 13m

★ 6.4

Overview

Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.

Genres

Horror

Animation

Mystery

Production Companies

Melòn Digital

R&R Communications

The Big Farm

Melusine Productions

Extraordinary Tales Trailers

Cast

Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')

Christopher Lee

Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Tell-Tale Heart')

Bela Lugosi

Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar')

Julian Sands

Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Pit and the Pendulum')

Guillermo del Toro

Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death')

Roger Corman

Crow / Poe (voice)

Stephen Hughes

Death (voice)

Cornelia Funke

Additional Voices

Karla Cervantes

Additional Voices

Raúl García

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