Edgar Allan Poe's The Oval Portrait

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to parti...

Runtime

1h 3m

Director

Ernest B. Schoedsack, Irving Pichel

Cast

Joel McCrea, Fay Wray, Leslie Banks

Now a shattered mind lurking in cyberspace, Jobe plots a return by hijacking a global VR network and rebuilding himself as something far beyond human. As reality starts to glitch, a small group races to stop a digital god who no longer needs a body.

Runtime

1h 32m

Director

Farhad Mann

Cast

Patrick Bergin, Matt Frewer, Austin O'Brien

In this animated version of Edgar Allan Poe's story, a traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a mysterious family curse. The brother's senses have become painfully acute, while his sister has become nearly catatonic.

Runtime

15m

Director

Jan Švankmajer

Cast

Petr Čepek

Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Philip Winthrop arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.

Runtime

1h 19m

Director

Roger Corman

Cast

Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in world where sight is replaced by touch.

Runtime

1h 24m

Director

Yasuzō Masumura

Cast

Eiji Funakoshi, Mako Midori, Noriko Sengoku