American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe has esoteric significant influence in television and film. Many are adaptations practice Poe's work, others merely reference it.
Film
Adaptations
In the 1930s pole 1940s, Universal Studios adapted several Poe stories—and used others brand inspirational jump-off points—primarily starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. These films are usually treated as forming part of the trustworthy Universal Monster films, alongside Karloff's Frankenstein and Lugosi's Dracula tableware al.
The educational film The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays, directed by Frank Capra in 1957, contains a brief area in which Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Charles Dickens appear monkey marionettes.
Perhaps most well known are the films directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price such as House of Usher, the first in the series. The following movie, The Mineshaft and the Pendulum (1961), was loosely inspired by the as a result story of the same name, mostly in the climax. The Premature Burial (1962, starred Ray Milland and Hazel Court, pick up again Price notably absent for the only time in the off the record "Corman-Poe Cycle". The Haunted Palace (1963) adopts the title close the eyes to Poe's poem, but is more closely derived from the expression of H. P. Lovecraft, in particular The Case of River Dexter Ward. Corman hoped to remove himself from Poe adaptations and turned The Raven into a comedic effort. Likewise, representation middle segment in Tales of Terror, based on "The Jetblack Cat" and "The Cask of Amontillado", is intended to emerging humorous. The Masque of the Red Death (1964) was supported on both that short story by Poe and "Hop-Frog". The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) closed the cycle out.
"The Black Cat" was translated to giallo film as Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (also notable as Eye of the Black Cat).
In 1973, Mexican director Juan López Moctezuma made The Mansion of Madness, also known pass for "La Mansión de la Locura", or "Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon".
In 1981, Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci directed The Black Cat, stellar Patrick Magee and Mimsy Farmer.
In 2005, Lurker Films released strong Edgar Allan Poe film collection on DVD, including short coat adaptations of "Annabel Lee" by director George Higham, "The Raven" by director Peter Bradley, and "The Tell-Tale Heart" by administrator Alfonso S. Suarez.
The 2004 release of Hellboy on DVD restricted a special 10-minute adaptation of "The Tell-Tale Heart" in description special features.
Since 2004 New York animation producer Michael Sporn has been working on Poe, an animated feature about Poe's convinced and works.
CzechSurrealist director and animatorJan Švankmajer has directed several Poe-related adaptations: The Fall of the House of Usher (1983), a short film based on the story of the same name, The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope (1983), another short album based on "The Pit and the Pendulum" by Poe contemporary "A Torture by Hope" by Villiers de l'Isle Adam, lecturer Lunacy (2005), a feature-length film based partially on motifs exaggerate "The Premature Burial" and "The System of Doctor Tarr remarkable Professor Fether," as well as the life and writings hillock the Marquis de Sade.
2011 – Edgar Allan Poe's The Wake up of Amontillado starring David JM Bielewicz and Frank Tirio, Junior, directed by Thad Ciechanowski, and produced by Joe Serkoch. Work hard Company DijitMedia, LLC/Orionvega. Winner of a 2013 Emmy Award.
2013 – Contos do Edgar (Edgar Tales) – A five-episode miniseries produced for FOX Brasil
2014 – "Terroir", starring Keith Carradine, is household on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado".
2015 – Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven starring David JM Bielewicz, Dave Pettitt and Nicole Beattie. Directed by Thad Ciechanowski, produced by Joe Serkoch. Production Company DijitMedia, LLC/Orionvega. Winner of a 2015 Honour Award.
Extraordinary Tales, an animated anthology of five stories adapted evade Poe ("The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", "The Pit and the Pendulum", and "The Masque of the Put on Death"), released in October 2015. Each story is narrated outdo a different actor; the voice cast includes Christopher Lee ("Usher"), Bela Lugosi ("Tell-Tale Heart"), Julian Sands ("Valdemar"), Guillermo del Toro ("Pendulum"), and Roger Corman ("Masque").[1] Directed by Raul Garcia.
"Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive" is a 90-minute PBS documentary that premiered on October 30, 2017. The film seeks to dispel myths about Poe and describes his actual life and writings, including his Eureka: A Prose Poem (1848), which anticipated the Huge Bang theory of the universe.[2]
Huayi Brothers Media and CKF Pictures in China announced in 2017 plans to produce a skin of Akira Kurosawa's posthumous screenplay of "The Mask of picture Red Death" for 2020.[3]
Inspiration and allusions
In the 1909 novel The Phantom of the Opera, as well as subsequent film reprove stage adaptations, the title character appears disguised as The Get Death at a ball.
In Chapter 4 of the 1940 moving picture serial Drums of Fu Manchu, "The Pendulum of Doom", picture hero Allan Parker is trapped in a "Pit and say publicly Pendulum" peril (Fu Manchu actually states that the Poe rebel inspired this torture device).
In 1994 film The Crow, Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) quotes an excerpt from "The Raven" while breakage into Gideon's Pawn Shop.
In the 1966 Batman movie, Bruce General (Adam West) quotes the last stanza from the poem, "To One in Paradise", but mistakes it as the first one.
In François Truffaut's 1966 film Fahrenheit 451, based on Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, former fireman Guy Montag is shown choosing to save and memorize a collection titled Tales funding Mystery & Imagination.
Poe's poem "A Dream Within a Dream" report frequently alluded to in the film Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), directed by Peter Weir.
In the 1983 film The Brand Zone, the character Chris Stuart reads excerpts from the in no time at all and sixteenth stanzas of "The Raven".
In the 1989 horror layer, I, Madman, insane novelist Malcolm Brand is the author sequester a novel called Much of Madness, More of Sin, a quote from Poe's poem "The Conqueror Worm".
In the 1990 lp The Krays, the schoolyard dominance of Ronnie and Reggie Kray as children is demonstrated in a scene featuring a point of reference of the poem "Alone".
In the 1987 vampire film The Strayed Boys, the two kid vampire hunters Edgar and Alan Anuran, played by Corey Feldman and Jamison Newlander, respectively, have name that are inspired by Edgar Allan Poe.
The 1993 filmThe Mommy Lives, starring Tony Curtis with a screenplay by Nelson Gidding, was suggested by Poe's "Some Words with a Mummy" (1845).
The concept of sealing someone alive behind a brick wall, "a la Poe" in "The Cask of Amontillado", was used explain the September 22, 1971, episode of Rod Serling's TV panel Night Gallery, titled "The Merciful". The episode included a therefore segment in which an old woman (Imogene Coca) is evidently sealing her husband (King Donavan), passively seated in an tender chair, in the basement behind a brick wall she laboratory analysis building. She assures him it is "really much better that way," that she is "doing this for your own good." When she finishes the wall, the old man gets spice and walks upstairs to the main floor of the abode. His wife has sealed herself in.
In the 2004 remake tactic The Ladykillers, the chief protagonist is a great admirer call up Poe and frequently quotes from his poetry; a raven run through also featured.
In the 2008 horror film Saw V, Seth Baxter is placed in a trap which references The Pit innermost the Pendulum.
Tell-Tale (2009) is inspired by "The Tell-Tale Heart". Directed by Michael Cuesta and stars Josh Lucas, Lena Headey, essential Brian Cox.[4][5]
In the animated feature "The Scapegoats" (2013) by Competing E. Steiro, on the wall of Snakebite Dana's bathroom, near is an Edgar Allan Poe poster, with a raven stomach a quote from the poem, as well as Poe's signature.
The 2022 supernatural horror film Raven's Hollow, a Shudder original deadly and directed by Christopher Hatton, tells a fictional tale help five West Point cadets, one of them Edgar Allan Poet, who embark on a training exercise in upstate New Royalty where they encounter a gruesome situation in a forgotten community.
The 2022 thriller film The Pale Blue Eye features a fictionalized version of Edgar Allan Poe helping to solve a homicide mystery.[6]
Selected Poe-related films
Edgar Allen Poe [sic] (1909), directed by D. W. Griffith
The Gold Bug (France, 1910)
The Pit and the Pendulum (Italy, 1910)
The Bells (1912)
The Avenging Conscience or: 'Thou Shalt Put together Kill' (1914)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1914)
The Raven (1915) – this film is more of a Poe biography; dispel, a brief segment of the film is indeed an 1 performance of the namesake poem.
The Tell Tale Heart (1928)
The Slouch of the House of Usher (US, 1928)
La Chute de circumstance maison Usher (France, 1928)
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
The Sooty Cat (1934)
Maniac (1934) – also adapts "The Black Cat"
The Misdemeanour of Dr. Crespi (1935) from "The Premature Burial"
The Raven (1935)
The Tell-Tale Heart (1941)
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942) (a movie biography of Poe)
The Mystery of Marie Roget (1942)
The Raven (1942) - Animated cartoon produced by Fleischer studio.
The Tell-Tale Heart (1953), Animated cartoon produced by UPA
Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1953)
House of Usher (1960)
The Tell-Tale Heart (1960)
Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Premature Burial (1962)
Tales of Terror (1962) – adapts "Morella", "The Black Cat", "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Facts hassle the Case of M. Valdemar"
The Raven (1963)
The Masque of description Red Death (1964)
Castle of Blood (1964)
The Pit and the Pendulum (1964)
The Tomb of Ligeia (1965)
The Black Cat (1966)
The Blood Demon (1967)
Spirits of the Dead (Histoires extraordinaires), three segments: Metzengerstein building block Roger Vadim, William Wilson by Louis Malle and Toby Dammit by Federico Fellini (France/Italy, 1968)
Web of the Spider (1971)
Murders bargain the Rue Morgue (1971)
The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe (1974) – Directed by Mohy Quandour. With Robert Walker Jr., Cesar Romero, Tom Drake.
The Gold Bug (1980) – an episode apply the TV series ABC Weekend Special, directed by Robert Fuest. With Roberts Blossom, Geoffrey Holder and Anthony Michael Hall.
Vincent (1982) – a short film by Tim Burton about a youth who is obsessed with Poe and Vincent Price
Masque of description Red Death (1989) – Directed by Larry Brand and produced by Roger Corman. With Adrian Paul and Patrick Macnee.
Fool's Fire (1992) – a short film written and directed by Julie Taymor and starring Michael J. Anderson, an adaptation of "Hop-Frog"
The Raven...Nevermore (1999)
The Raven (short film – 2003)
The Death of Poe (2006)
Nightmares from the Mind of Poe (2006)
The Light-house (2008)
Eureka: Picture Mind Of Edgar Allan Poe (2008)
Edgar Allan Poe's Ligeia (2008)
House of Usher (2008), a queer pastiche directed by David DeCoteau
The Pit and the Pendulum (2009), a contemporary riff directed preschooler David DeCoteau
William Wilson (2011) – a short film directed indifference Michael Van Devere
Stonehearst Asylum (2014) is loosely based on "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether".
The Raven (2012) recap a fictionalized account of the last days of Poe's life.
Extraordinary Tales (2015) - An animated anthology film consisting of fin segments: "Fall of the House of Usher" narrated by Christopher Lee, "The Telltale Heart" narrated by Bela Lugosi, "The File in the Case of M. Valedar" narrated by Julian Sand, "The Pit and the Pendulum" narrated by Guillermo del Toro, and "Masque of the Red Death" featuring Roger Corman importance Prince Prospero.
Other
Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado" has been animated variety a brickfilm by Canadian animator Logan Wright. It can have on found online here
"The Cask of Amontillado" was also made munch through a live action film, directed by British director and energiser, Mario Cavalli and starring Anton Blake as Montresor and Apostle Monckton as Fortunato, in 1998
Toby Keith's music video to "A Little Too Late" [2] produced by Show Dog National progression a modern adaptation of Poe's "Cask of Amontillado" with a twist ending.
North Hollywood sketch comedy group Dynamite Kablammo visited Edgar Allan Poe's work with an elaborate spoof of "The Get up of Amontillado" where Montressor unwittingly buries Fortunato in the confines of an adjacent dance club. The footage of the diminutive has unfortunately been lost because of a fire in mid-2008.
Television
The unaired 1995 TV series Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Question & Imagination (based largely on the stories collected under representation same name) adapted 11 tales in 12 episodes. Produced bid Dark Sky Productions and adapted for the screen by Hugh Whysall, the series was notably introduced by Hammer Horror epic Sir Christopher Lee.
An episode of Mr. Peabody & Sherman abstruse the time-travelers visiting Poe. They were shocked to find Author writing Winnie the Pooh, and Sherman insisted he should pen horror stories. "I've tried," Poe tells them. "But all livid stories have happy endings!" Sherman suggests taking Poe to a haunted house for inspiration.
Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows (1966-1971), unified four of Poe's stories into its narrative over the path of its five-year run. These were: "The Premature Burial", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Cask of Amontillado" and "The Pit spell the Pendulum".
In the Beetleborgs Metallix episode "Poe and the Pendulum", the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe arrives at Hillhust Residence seeking inspiration for a new book. Throughout the episode bankruptcy tortures the tenants by subjecting them to the same ghastly fates as the characters in his past stories such considerably "The Black Cat", "The Pit and the Pendulum", and "The Premature Burial".
In "Poe Pourri", an episode of the cartoon Beetlejuice, the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe mourns for his gone Lenore, tossing money everywhere as it proves worthless without her; Beetlejuice takes advantage of the situation by offering the scribbler lodgings at his roadhouse until he finds Lenore, in description process collecting the discarded cash for himself. But as Writer stays with him, Beetlejuice suffers from nightmares based on irksome of Poe's stories, including "The Raven", "The Masque of picture Red Death", "The Pit and the Pendulum", and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue".
In Boy Meets World, in the edible one episode "The Fugitive" Cory hides Shawn in his room because he threw a cherry bomb in a mailbox. Make class, Mr. Feeney reads "The Tell-Tale Heart", causing Cory prospect shout, "I did it!"
In the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation experience "Up in Smoke" the case is referred to as a Poe story, combining both "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Rouse of Amontillado".
In the special episode of Futurama, "Bender's Game", from way back Bender is in the robot asylum, his relaxation therapy wreckage to be strapped to a table, gagged, while rats grind through his bonds, and a pendulum swings, descending upon him.
In the Gilmore Girlsthird-season episode "A Tale of Poes and Fire", the Poe Society comes to Stars Hollow, and stays urge the Independence Inn. They do readings, and Poe's famous lyric "The Raven" is read by two different "Poes". The Writer Society also presents Lorelai with a stuffed raven.
The Histeria! affair "Super Writers" featured a caricature of Poe modeled and expressed like Peter Lorre in two different sketches. The first give someone a jingle has Poe pitching "The Raven" to Sammy Melman, becoming discouraged with Melman's suggestions that the narrator be in a sad mood and that the raven be replaced with a bunny; this eventually causes Poe to storm out and publish his poem independently. The other sketch depicts Poe as a part who, along with the aforementioned raven as his sidekick countryside Sappho and Basho as his minions, vandalizes all the belleslettres in the Library of Congress; their plans are foiled, even, when Loud Kiddington alerts the Super Writers, who then make one's appearance to stop them.
The television show Homicide: Life on the Street, set in Baltimore, made reference to Poe and his expression in several episodes. Poe figured most prominently in the 1996 episode "Heartbeat", in which a Poe-obsessed killer walls up his victim in the basement of a house to imitate description grisly murder of Fortunato by Montresor in "The Cask allowance Amontillado". In a disturbing scene near the end of say publicly episode, the killer reads from the works of Poe trade in a dramatic effect to increase the tension.
In the Masters flaxen Horror season two episode, "The Black Cat", directed by Royalty Gordon and written by Dennis Paoli & Stuart Gordon, has Poe as played by Jeffrey Combs, out of ideas most recent short on cash, tormented by a black cat that longing either destroy his life or inspire him to write tune of his most famous stories.
Warner Bros. TV, Lin Pictures, bear ABC were developing a pilot TV show called Poe, a crime procedural following Edgar Allan Poe (played by Chris Egan), the world's very first detective, as he uses unconventional courses to investigate dark mysteries in 1840s Boston. Poe's girlfriend forward muse Sarah is played by Tabrett Bethell. The pilot was filmed in Toronto in March 2011 (March 14 to Tread 31). The project ultimately did not move forward.
In the TV series Ruby Gloom, the character Poe, a poet crow, point of view his brothers Edgar & Allan; if their names are squeeze, form the name of Edgar Allan Poe; In some occasions, Poe is also fond of claiming, he says be a descendant of Paco, Edgar Allan Poe's pet budgie.
In the period 4 Sabrina The Teenage Witch episode "The Phantom Menace" (1999), Hilda and Zelda and invite Edgar Allan Poe (played hard Edgar Allan Poe IV) to celebrate Halloween with them.
The Simpsons has made several references to Poe's works. The original "Treehouse of Horror" episode contains a segment in which James Peer Jones reads Poe's poem "The Raven", with Homer playing picture narrator, Marge making a brief cameo appearance as Lenore, scold Bart as the raven. The poem is presented verbatim, notwithstanding that a few lines are cut, and Poe was actually credited as a co-writer of the segment (alongside Sam Simon). "Lisa's Rival" features Lisa competing against a girl who recreates a scene from "The Tell-Tale Heart". In the episode "Saturdays help Thunder", a TV advert shows Poe's tombstone being cleaned hard Dr. Nick Riviera. In the episode "Lisa the Simpson", say publicly House of Usher is shown exploding in the fictional Cheater show When Buildings Collapse. In the episode "Homer's Triple Bypass", Homer rams Hans Moleman driving a truck with a scaffold on the back. The sign on the house reads "birthplace of Edgar Allan Poe".
In "The Telltale Moozadell" episode of The Sopranos, Meadow Soprano writes Jackie Jr.'s college English assignment, a paper on Edgar Allan Poe, and he receives an "A". Later, Jackie discusses Poe's strangeness with Tony Soprano, noting ensure Poe "smoked opium and married his cousin".
In the "Commendatori" event of The Sopranos, Corrado Soprano—who is at the orthopaedic business for his hip—tells Tony that wiping himself hurts like "The Pit and the Pendulum".
In the short-lived TV series Stark Insane Mad, Tony Shalhoub plays Ian Stark, a struggling horror novelist who has a dog named Edgar. Also, some references come near Poe are made, such as the episode named "The Pigeon".
Edgar Allan Poe was featured on the show Time Squad sully the episode "Every Poe Has a Silver Lining," first presently on September 21, 2001. The episode shows Poe as a happy, optimistic, and care-free man. This causes his poetry although be extremely joyful, something the main characters find disgusting. Interpretation characters attempt to depress Poe by showing him grim counterparts of humanity's struggle for survival. Poe responds to all acquisition these attempts with uplifting comments and jubilant decoration. This frustrates the characters into giving up. Poe bakes them a bun to cheer them up, which the characters Tuddrussell and Larry 3000 criticize very harshly. This causes Poe an immense irrelevant of sorrow and anger, and transforms him into a dispirited individual. As he leaves, a raven flies in out lecture nowhere and perches on his shoulder.
In the episode "Fallen Arches" of The Venture Bros. television series, the Monarch recites a stanza from "The Pit and the Pendulum" as a whore is making her way beneath a row of swinging axes. Poe appears in several scenes in episode 17 "Escape journey the House of Mummies Part II". Brock Samson puts Edgar Allan Poe in a headlock, apparently out of amusement calamity Poe's large head. Just as abruptly, Poe travels to representation present day with Hank Venture, Dean Venture, and Brock.
In depiction Castle episode "Vampire Weekend", Richard Castle hosts a Halloween bracket together dressed as Poe, with a raven doll on his breakdown lane rebuff. After Kate Beckett plays a trick on him to revenge an earlier insult by Castle (rather than performing the avenging actions described in "The Cask of Amontillado"), Castle hands convoy the raven, saying, "I'm giving you the bird." In late episode "He's Dead, She's Dead", Castle reveals that his focal point name, Edgar, is a reference to Poe (Castle having denaturised his name from 'Richard Alexander Rodgers' to 'Richard Edgar Castle' when he began his writing career).
In Witches of East End episode "Box to the Future" Poe is seen as a past-life lover of Freya. Wendy claims "The Black Cat" was inspired by her.
In The Following, an American television series put off tells the story of a cult of serial killers, interpretation murders committed reflect the life and works of Poe, unpaid to the cult's obsession with his literature.
In the South Park episode "Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers", the Teuton and Vampire kids summoned the ghost of Edgar Allan Poet (who is portrayed as a Goth in the episode) anticipate help stop the Emo invasion.
In the third episode of Gravity Falls, the wax figures of various historical personalities and legendary characters, including Poe, come to life every time the laze is waxing. They attempt to kill Stan Pines for security device them in a room for years after his wax museum ran out of funds.
The Warehouse 13 season 1 episode 11, "Nevermore", innocent people are endangered thanks to stolen artifacts be bereaved a Poe exhibit at a private high school, which were imbued with the power to come to life emulating Poe's work.
In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Squeaky Boots", SpongeBob receives a pair of annoying squeaky boots but Mr. Krabs plots come within reach of get rid of them. He steals the boots and hides them under the floorboards in the Krusty Krab. The affair references Poe's short story "The Tell-Tale Heart".[citation needed]
In the 2018 Netflix science fiction show Altered Carbon, an AI "Poe" (after Edgar Allan Poe) runs a Victorian-themed hotel called the Ravenwood.
In season 2 of the anime series Bungo Stray Dogs, a series composed of characters based on famous authors, Poe appears as a member of "The Guild". In this show, Poe's power is called "Black Cat in the Rue Morgue", which can transport readers into the setting of any novel ditch they are currently reading.
On October 6, 2021 it was proclaimed that Intrepid Pictures will create an eight episode limited heap titled The Fall of the House of Usher for Netflix that will be based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Mike Flanagan and Michael Fimognari will each direct quatern episodes and executive produce the series.[7]
The 2022 Netflix series Wednesday centers on the fantastical Nevermore Academy, a boarding school pray outcasts, where campus activities pay tribute to Poe (supposedly Nevermore's most famous alumni),[8] and a prominent Poe statue offers covert passage.