An anthology film of two classic tales from Edgar Allan Poe. A re-edited and dubbed version of Masterworks of Terror (1960) for American cinemas.

A man is sitting in a padded cell. He remembers how he got there. Munich in the run-up to Christmas: The loner roams the city, has abnormal ideas when looking at the most harmless things and wants to turn his perverse fantasies into reality. To do this, he chooses an old man whom he happens to see in a shop. He perfectly plans a perfidious, cruel murder.

A man is sitting in a padded cell. He remembers how he got there. Munich in the run-up to Christmas: The loner roams the city, has abnormal ideas when looking at the most harmless things and wants to turn his perverse fantasies into reality. To do this, he chooses an old man whom he happens to see in a shop. He perfectly plans a perfidious, cruel murder.

A witch is put to death in Colonial America, leaving her husband and infant daughter behind. Seventeen years later, the daughter has grown up and stands to inherit money set up by her mother’s family. Now that the stage is set, the mother wants to return to life by taking over her daughter’s body.

我所看过根据爱伦坡小说改编的电影中最超现实的一部。影像很怪诞的一部电视电影。茱莉泰摩是美国著名的女玩偶制作家。
Eerie,strange and beautiful adaptation of great Poe story
I accidently caught this strange and beautiful tv movie when it first aired in the early 90's, while I was on a ski trip. With its weird and eerie and incredibly beautiful fairy tale atmosphere it is very reminiscent of Jim Henson's "Storyteller", and it's a shame that it only seems to have aired once and never rerun. I have no idea whether it's available on video or not, but if you can find it, I highly recommend watching it, and reading the Edgar Allen Poe story(titled "Hopfrog") it is based on as well.

雷·米兰饰演的主人公因父亲僵硬症假死被活埋的心理阴影始终挥之不去，自造了一座号称充分防错的活人墓地。这场戏就是向妻子、医生介绍自己的完美计划。而更有趣的是，此计划陈述的形式氛围以及雷米兰陈述过程中所展示玩世自负神情都如同他自己在《电话谋杀案》中向杀手陈述谋杀计划的翻版。唯一的差别：那片是在完美谋杀，而这片却在完美防被杀，被活埋！

根据侦探小说鼻祖美国大作家爱伦坡的著名小说改编。江湖棋人带着他的“机械棋手”走遍整个欧洲与人下棋，他们来到马埃泽尔，一农场主留住了他们摆开了棋场，“机械棋手”百战百胜。然而在与农场主妻子苏菲下棋时，却把苏菲颈部抓伤。原来机械棋人并非机械的智慧，而是藏在机械底下的小矮人所为，小矮人把秘密都告诉了苏菲，苏菲对长期被关在箱子里的小矮人表示同情。农场主请来一位将军与“机械棋手”下棋，不料“机械棋手”掏出手枪将美丽的苏菲和自己的主人江湖棋人打死，小矮人也同归于尽。

A mentally unbalanced man is obsessed with the idea that a black cat is possessed. He tortures and kills it. Later, he comes to believe that the cat has returned from the dead to kill him.

在 19 世纪的巴黎，一个疯子绑架年轻女性并为她们注射猿血，试图证明猿与人的亲缘关系，但却不断遭遇失败，被绑架的女性相继死去。

艾伯特（莫斯特法-贾贾姆饰）是一名园丁，他痴迷于种植完美的玫瑰。然而，他的痴迷被新的痴迷者费尔南多（安东尼奥-奥兰多饰）所取代，他发现费尔南多在庄园的小教堂偷窃虔诚的供品。阿尔伯特将费尔南多关在马厩里，每天来喂食和陪伴他，但他的母亲（玛格达莱娜-莫克特苏玛饰）一直在看着这一切。这部影片在表现上明显带有同性恋色彩，特别是在结尾部分，画面让人想起圣塞巴斯蒂安的图像，试图创造一种关于完美浪漫理想的氛围。

一个聪明但疯狂的神经外科医生着迷于一位法官的女儿。在逃脱的罪犯的帮助下，他对她进行了整形手术，然后将她、她的父亲和未婚夫诱至他孤立的城堡般住所，在那里他建造了一个酷刑室，意图对他们进行折磨以报复被“折磨”过。

　　本片改编自爱伦坡的短篇小说, 该部小说非常有名, 被改编成电影数次, 本片是由文森普莱斯於1960年主演的版本, 电影与小说不同, 稍微做了些改变。
　　罗瑞与妹妹麦德琳相依为命, 整栋大宅只有一位年老的管家陪伴着兄妹俩。远从波士顿过来探访的年轻人-菲利普, 因为与麦德琳相恋, 想要把她从哥哥身边带走, 奈何哥哥罗瑞千方阻挠, 並且整栋大宅摇摇欲坠, 阴风阵阵, 几次的危险差点让菲利普丧命,某一天夜裡, 麦德琳死了... 菲利普痛不欲生, 无法接受她的死去, 当他知道这个家族深受邪恶的诅咒後, 麦德琳真的復活了....

由导演Raul Garcia根据埃德加·爱伦·坡的同名经典小说改编，爱伦·坡(Edgar Allan Poe)是19世纪美国著名的诗人、短篇小说家、编辑和文学评论家，亦是美国浪漫主义者的先锋。他的《厄舍古屋的倒塌》出版于1839年，描写一个古老家族的一对孪生兄妹住在一座令人窒息的幽暗古屋里，妹妹多年疾病缠身，哥哥因思想久被压抑而精神失常，妹妹病笃，哥哥邀请挚友前来作伴。后来哥哥把妹妹活埋，在一个风雨交加的夜晚，妹妹又破棺而出，死在已经晕死过去的哥哥的怀里。朋友仓皇逃出，古屋在风雨中倒塌在屋旁的池塘里。

Don Maxwell is an ex-vaudeville ham, wanted by police, who has now found himself as the unlikely assistant to Dr. Meirschultz, a mad scientist in the business of reanimating corpses. Maxwell's gift of impersonation gets him and Meirschultz past the guards and into a morgue where they use a special serum to revive the corpse of a pretty young woman. But that's nothing. Dr. Meirschultz has a heart beating in a jar of solution and is eager to put it into a corpse that really needs it. Meirschultz gives his assistant a gun and advises him to commit suicide, so that he can put the heart in him, but Maxwell shoots and kills the scientist instead and hides the body. People will miss Meirschultz, Maxwell quickly realizes, but no one will miss his lowly assistant; and so Maxwell dons eyeglasses and a fake beard to become his onetime benefactor. The trouble is, he impersonates the mad doctor too well and goes crazy himself.

Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Becoming convinced that murder is merely a natural part of life, he kills his uncle and hides the body. However, the man's conscience awakens; paranoia sets in and nightmarish visions begin to haunt him.