I too always loved this beautifully atmospheric and scary Italian horror as a kid. Does anyone know what (if any) Poe story this film is 'supposed' to be based on? Is there 'really' a Poe short story (published or unpublished) called "Night of the Living Dead"? Thanx, HJ
shareNo, of all Poe's many short stories, none was titled Night of the Living Dead, nor does the film appear to be based on any Poe work, short story, poem, or anything else.
It is a good film, though, within its genre.
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I can't think of any Poe story that is in any way related to this movie myself. I think they more or less just borrowed Mr. Poe's name to add to the atmosphere of the story. They needed a reason for the reporter to go to the house and having him interview Mr. Poe was a clever lead in to the main story I think. It's rather like the Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes movies of the 1940's. Bits and pieces were 'borrowed' from the actual stories but the actual movies (with the exception of Hound of the Baskervilles) were set in the then modern day's. So Mr. Poe is just there to add a touch of the macabre to the story.
shareI was lucky enough to be able to rent a DVD copy of this very gothic movie from a store near my workplace that has a lot of unique titles to choose from!!!! and I definately remember the EAPoe twist and it was clever to add it even though it is not based on 1 of his stories!!!!!!!!
Lately i really don't like watching pale/brunette brit. actresses so im glad i got a chance to see this about a yr&1/2 ago before my ban started!!!!
I really liked her in that NEW DARK SHADOWS SERIES while it was on and i did'nt know she had been 1 of the STRUMPET/WHORES in PRETTY BABY!!!!!!
It could very well be. In the Library I inherited from my Great-Grand Uncle is a 5 book cloth bound set "Works of Edgar Allen Poe" In volume 4 there are 'incantations' which are poems in the form of chants, or chants in the form of poems if you like. The proper term is 'incantatory poetic diction' One chant refers to the "Blackwood House"
If this connects to the movie or not I doubt anyone will ever really know for sure.
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There's no Poe connection, other than it having a Poe-etic sort of atmosphere, and including him as a character. They were trying to add "Poe" references because Roger Corman's Poe adaptations were hot at the time, so they wanted to trick people into thinking this film was part of that wave. It's not, but it's such a good film I doubt anybody minded if they were tricked into it. :)
shareThis could be considered, like a number of comic-books I've seen, a story featuring Poe, rather than a story based on Poe.
We do get to hear an excerpt of "BERENICE" being read at the bar.
Oddly enough, the opening sequence, where they're travelling by horse-drawn carriage to reach a spooky castle to spend the night, was used in a Brazillian comics adaptation of "THE OVAL PORTRAIT", and the portrait in the movie is of a blonde woman, as in the later (1967) comic.
This is the closest thing I can see to an "inspiration" from Poe in the film!
The comic I mention is ALBUM CLASSICOS DE TERROR #4 (Editora Taika / Brazil / 1967), adapted by Francisco De Assis and art by Osvaldo Talo. Crazy enough, in a brief scene near the end of the comic, we see a character in a bar who is a dead ringer for actor Umberto Raho, who played "Lord Thomas Blackwood" in this film. My impression is that several comics artists in Brazil were fans of Italian horror movies!
Osvaldo Talo also did a comics adaptation of "WILLIAM WILSON" that was much closer to the version seen in the film "HISTOIRES EXTRAORDINAIRE" (1968) than the original Poe story!