The Tell-Tale Heart

2013
25m

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Edgar Allan Poe's classic story is retold with a modern psychological twist. A young man is disturbed by his roommate's hideous eye. His actions are unthinkable, but his motives are even mor... Read allEdgar Allan Poe's classic story is retold with a modern psychological twist. A young man is disturbed by his roommate's hideous eye. His actions are unthinkable, but his motives are even more deranged. Find out why the detectives are rattled and scrambling for answers.Edgar Allan Poe's classic story is retold with a modern psychological twist. A young man is disturbed by his roommate's hideous eye. His actions are unthinkable, but his motives are even more deranged. Find out why the detectives are rattled and scrambling for answers.

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Very Good Version of the Classic Story

A Tell-Tale Heart (2013)

*** (out of 4)

Sean Gilchrist directed this well-made adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story. A couple detectives (Isaac Rhino, L. Reach Torres) are questioning a man (Brandon Alan McClenahan) who soon begins to hear a murder victim's heartbeat.

There's no question that this here is my favorite Poe story and I've always tried to see every version of it that I could. This one here clocks in at twenty-five minutes and tries to bring the story to a current time and it actually works extremely well. I really liked how the suspect is being questioned at a jail and then we see his story told in flashback. This here actually works quite well and it perfectly brings the classic tale to a current time. I also thought the performances by the entire cast were extremely good. Both Reach and Rhino sell their parts perfectly and McClenahan perfectly captured the tormented mind of his character.