Season 3: Episode 87 - EDGAR ALLEN POE: Tell Tale Heart (1843) / Tell Tale (2009)

Short Story: 

Tell Tale Heart (1843)

Film: 

Tell Tale (2009)

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The unnamed narrator tries to convince the sanity of himself as he describes the murder that they committed.  The 1843 short story would give full details of dismemberment of a body and hiding.  Ultimately the narrators guilt or mental sanity will come in focus when he starts hearing the dead man’s beating heart. 

 

Tell Tale is a 2009 science fiction horror drama film centre around a man who has a heart transplant as he looks for the man who murdered the donor before a similar fate befalls him.  The film came out quietly but has an impressive cast which includes Josh Lucas, Lena Headey and Brian Cox who are directed by Michael Cuesta and produced by Tony and Ridley Scott.

 

Opening Credits (.25); Introduction (3.09); Forming the Plot (7.47); Film Trailer (31.13);  Lights, Camera, Action (34.27); Epilogue (56.57); End Credits (58.42); Closing Credits (1:00.45)

 

Opening Credits – It’s Christmas Eve by Alex Khashkin from the album A Christmas Horror Story

 

Closing Credits – Jingle Bells by Ella Fitzgerald from the album Ella’s Swinging Christmas

 

All songs available from Amazon.

 

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