Best Edgar Allan Poe Movies
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Best Edgar Allan Poe Movies

Edgar Allan Poe was the original master of horror; hundreds of movies have been based on his writing and he's featured as a character in many others. But how do they stack up?

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1 Pit and the Pendulum
A torture chamber and Vincent Price as a mad sadist equals Poe perfection, camp variety. 158 230
2 The Fall of the House of Usher
Roger Corman's haunting first Poe picture features a strikingly somber Vincent Price. 136 208
3 The Masque of the Red Death
Decadent arisocrats try to cheat death in the most laish of the Corman-Price Poe movies. 116 206
4 Tales of Terror
Vincent Price and Peter Lorre make the "Black Cat" segment a delight. 113 197
5 Vincent
Tim Burton's clay-animated short, narrated by Vincent Price, is the perfect tribute to Poe and Poe fans. 66 166
6 Castle of Blood
Poe himself challenges a skeptic to brave a haunted house in this atmopheric gothic chiller. 35 157
7 Witchfinder General
A tale of real-life 17th-century horror worthy of EAP, starring Poe-meister Vincent Price, hence its Poe-derived US release title, The Conqueror Worm. 25 161
8 Spirits of the Dead
Federico Fellini turns a little know Poe piece into a 1960s Europop nightmare of alienation, despair and madness. 9 143
9 Web of the Spider
In this color remake of Castle of Blood, Poe is played by Klaus Kinski. 8 134