Extraordinary Tales

2013
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1h 13min

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6,4/10

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueAn animated anthology of five tales adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's stories.An animated anthology of five tales adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's stories.An animated anthology of five tales adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's stories.

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Récompenses
- 1 victoire et 5 nominations au total

Crow
(voix)
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Cornelia Funke

Death (interstitials)
(voix)

Réalisation
- Raul Garcia
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Anecdotes
The stories featured are "The Fall of the House of Usher," narrated by Sir Christopher Lee; "The Tell-Tale Heart," narrated by Bela Lugosi; "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar," narrated by Julian Sands; "The Pit and the Pendulum," narrated by Guillermo del Toro; and "The Masque of the Red Death," which isn't narrated.

Gaffes
(around 1h 08 mins) A tombstone giving data for Edgar Allan Poe with birth and death dates is seen; also showing a quote from one of his most famous writings but is misquoted as 'QUOT THE RAVEN "NEVERMORE"'. All publications and references to The Raven have always used the proper verbiage of Quoth instead of quot.

Citations
Death: They all succumb to my prowess. The poor, the weak; the rich, the powerful. Everybody bows before me. I offer you one last chance.
Crow: I don't want my work to be lost forever. My work is eternal. I want that eternity. I want to be sure my words will survive me, that they will be never lost in time.
Death: That, my friend, NEVERMORE!

Crédits fous
In the opening credits of The Tell Tale Heart, it says: " Inspired by the art of Alberto Breccia". Alberto Breccia is a famous cartoonist, well known for his black-and-white style.

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6/10

Not for fans of Poe

The movie is likely to be entertaining for those who have read little to none of Poe's oeuvre, but it fails to deliver for those who know Poe very well. It didn't live up to my expectations, and they were not too high.

Were the stories presented back to back, the whole would be much better than with the cheesy conversation between a crow (shouldn't it be a raven?) that represents Poe and a feminine Death. The bird is poorly drawn and speaks nonsense that would never have left Poe's mouth, making the dumb dialog in the cemetery rather cringeworthy. With a more Poe-like Raven and a more Gothic feel, the tone could have been much closer to that of Poe's tales.

The short story adaptations are OK, although the recording of Bela Lugosi is (understandably) very bad quality, and the last story just didn't feel like a story at all. Naturally, not much happens in the original short story; it has a vivid imagery, full of gloomy impressions. This is why it probably shouldn't have been included in the movie. The other four stories are decently realized. Sadly, at the end, a word of the famous line from The Raven is misspelled: "quot", instead of "quoth", adding insult to injury.

A good effort, overall. It's a pity that the stories were "linked" to each other in such an awkward manner.