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Extraordinary Tales

Extraordinary Tales

Horror · Animation · Mystery · 2015

Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.

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Extraordinary Tales

2015 Horror · Animation · Mystery 1h 13m

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6.5 / 10

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Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.

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What this film says about your taste.

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The archetype split

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Raúl García

Written by

Raúl García

Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee

Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')

Bela Lugosi

Bela Lugosi

Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Tell-Tale Heart')

Julian Sands

Julian Sands

Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar')

Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro

Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Pit and the Pendulum')

Roger Corman

Roger Corman

Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death')

Stephen Hughes

Stephen Hughes

Crow / Poe (voice)

Cornelia Funke

Cornelia Funke

Death (voice)

Court is in session

Put Extraordinary Tales on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.