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Tales Of Poe (2014/Wild Eye DVD)



Picture: B- Sound: B- Extras: D Film: C



Classic Edgar Allan Poe short stories are brought to life with a modern twist in the new horror anthology film Tales of Poe (2014), which stars scream queens Adrienne King (Friday the 13th, Friday the 13th, Part 2), Caroline Williams (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Zombie's Halloween 2), Amy Steel (Friday the 13th, Part 2, April Fool's Day), Debbie Rochon (Model Hunger, Hell Town), and Lesleh Donaldson (Happy Birthday to Me, Funeral Home).


Tales of Poe is divided into three chapters including The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, and Dreams and is directed by Bart Mastronardi and Alan Rowe Kelly. The strongest piece in my opinion is The Telltale Heart, which features Debbie Rochon (one of my favorites) as a twisted nurse who can't seem to deal with the dead eye of her elderly patient'. The Cask has some great gore effects that make you feel pretty bad for the main character and Dreams is a pretty lucid and interesting piece. Overall, the gory film is well-shot and decently acted but at times, the material doesn't translate to screen as well as it did on page.


The standard definition transfer looks fine on DVD with an anamorphic widescreen aspect ratio of 1.78:1 that could definitely benefit from a high definition upgrade. Much of the film is dark with high contrast shadows where some detail is lost due to DVD - some details are a bit softer than they should be, but overall the film looks fine for the format. Bet Blu-ray would resolve the darkness more effectively. A lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 track makes up the audio, which sounds good on a home surround sound system, but nothing to necessarily write home about.


The only extras are trailers.


If you're a fan of indie horror and/or the works of Edgar Allan Poe, then you may want to give this film a look. It's nice to see these Scream Queen actresses back onscreen and some of the special effects here aren’t half bad. I wouldn't say these compare, however, to the Roger Corman Poe films by any stretch.



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