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

An eccentric collector of rare movies shot on super-8 dies and his library is sold off. Film Fanatic Marty Weeks successfully bids on several reels of film and rushes home to watch them. The projector clatters to life an the light flickers on the screen as terror unspools in early short films made by the Polonia bros between 1983 and 1985, right before their switch to the new video format. Witness the celluloid horror of maniacal cults, scarecrow vengeance, and even an Aqua-Maniac! Watch as Death Reel unfolds and the fevered beginnings of the Polonia Bros gets you in its death grip!!!!!!

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