Extraordinary Tales

Jun 25, 2015

1h 13m

★ 6.5

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

Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must come to grips with the terrible secret of her handsome, cold husband, Max De Winter. She must also deal with the jealous, obsessed Mrs. Danvers, the housekeeper, who will not accept her as the mistress of the house.

7.2

Ghost

Jul 13, 1990

After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.

6.2

Alien from the Darkness

Jan 24, 1997

The all female crew of the transport ship Muse is on a mission in deep space. They pick up an SOS signal and discover a derelict space cruiser where all the women have died mysteriously. They take the only survivor, a young woman named Flair, and detonate the ghost ship. However, the danger is just beginning. With Flair on the Muse, the romances between the women begin to take a new turn. One by one, the crewmembers are attacked by a mysterious alien presence, desperate to find a way to reproduce with human women!

7.1

Dawn of the Dead

Mar 19, 2004

A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall after the world is taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies.

6.6

Final Destination

Mar 17, 2000

After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

5.5

The Dentist

Jun 7, 1996

Dr. Alan Feinstone has everything: a beautiful wife and a successful career in dentistry. However, when he discovers his wife's affair, he realizes that behind every clean, white surface lies the stench of decay.

5.5

The Crow: Salvation

Jan 23, 2000

Alex Corvis, a man wrongly executed for the murder of his girlfriend, returns from the dead and sets out to find the real killer.

5.1

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

Sep 29, 1995

Six years after being presumed dead in a fire, and just as the town prepares to finally celebrate Halloween again, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield to continue his reign of terror.

5.5

Shutter

Mar 21, 2008

A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.

0.0

Gravedigger Dave’s Halfway House

Mar 28, 2020

The ghost stories of northern Minnesota. What is fact? What is fiction? You decide.

5.8

Cry_Wolf

Sep 16, 2005

After a local woman is murdered, a group of teenage liars create a warning e-mail of a serial killer named “The Wolf”, coming on the next full moon. The teens describe each death method The Wolf uses, but when the described victims actually do start turning up dead, suddenly no one knows where the lies end and the truth begins.

6.1

The Amityville Horror

Apr 14, 2005

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

0.0

My Freedom

Nov 15, 2019

30 years of freedom = 30 authors = 30 minutes of films. A unique project of Reflex magazine and Czech Television, which in honor of the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution reflects many forms and understanding of freedom. Various personalities of the Czech cultural sphere have made their minute films.

7.9

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

Oct 31, 1962

A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

7.3

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte

Dec 16, 1964

An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.

6.1

Wilderness

Aug 11, 2006

Juvenile delinquents are sent to a small British island after a fellow prisoner's death, where they must fight for survival.

4.2

Chemical Wedding

May 4, 2008

A shy, stuttering professor brings satanist Aleister Crowley back to life.

5.0

Rings

Feb 1, 2017

Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.

6.5

Dorm

Feb 23, 2006

When 12-year-old Ton transfers to an all-boys boarding school, he's taunted by his peers and terrified by their tales about the ghosts that inhabit the school. Ton is utterly miserable until he befriends a mysterious fellow pupil.