The Tell-Tale Heart (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #4 extract: The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)

The Tell-Tale Heart. A truly powerful short adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's short story of the same name that puts us into the mind and behind the eyes of a deranged man plotting to kill his landlord. 

The twisted and sable imagery throughout the narrative embellish the unstable, irate performance creating a great atmospheric sense of creeping horror that really explodes at the multiple crescendos of the short. This combined with the fractured surrealism, abstract images and lulling, sometime frantic, editing, conjures a poignant story that really sweeps you into the narrative and holds you there til the end. A really good watch.