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Extraordinary Tales
An animated anthology of 5 stories adapted from Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar, and The Masque of the Red Death.
9 January 1958, Buffalo, New York, USA
9 October 1964, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
20 October 1882, Lugos, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary [now Lugoj, Timis County, Romania]
4 January 1958, Otley, Yorkshire, England, UK
5 April 1926, Detroit, Michigan, USA
27 May 1922, Belgravia, London, England, UK
10 December 1958, Dorsten, Germany
October 23, 2015
Garcia brings these classic Poe tales to life with the notable aid of atmospheric score by Sergio de la Puente.
October 22, 2015
The voices of the late Christopher Lee and Bela Lugosi reading from the text isn't quite the same. But Garcia compensates with a different animation style for each of the five stories.
October 22, 2015
Just in time for Halloween comes this singular tribute to Edgar Allan Poe from veteran animator Raul Garcia.
October 23, 2015
Extraordinary Tales leaves us wishing for more: more running time, more of Poe's material, more of Garcia's macabre animated magic.
October 24, 2015
the definitive works of Edgar Allan Poe on the big screen
December 09, 2015
Unsure of its targeted demographic, Tales straddles the tonal line, flip-flopping like a fish left on the dock.
October 23, 2015
Poe's storytelling gift is so timeless, and the voice actors assembled so captivating, that "Extraordinary Tales" can't help but work on some level. It just never quite rises above that faint praise.
October 23, 2015
The fact that an author who died 166 years ago continues to be a draw for moviemakers says something about Edgar Allan Poe's imagination. And here's a feverish new animated Poe feature -- released just in time for Halloween.
October 22, 2015
"Extraordinary Tales" reminds viewers that animation can enable an artist to realize an individual vision, even on a limited budget.
October 22, 2015
The best sections reverberate with the power of Poe's words. As such, they serve as apt tributes to yarns that will always be more formidable on the page than on the screen.
October 25, 2015
Five stories by Edgar Allan Poe get varied treatment in this striking but inert animated compendium.
January 08, 2016
Poe's creepy, unevenly adapted tales aren't for young kids.