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Extraordinary Tales is an animated anthology of the classic Edgar Allan Poe stories The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,The Masque of the Red Death, and The Pit and the Pendulum . The 70-minute film features the voices of Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Roger Corman, Guillermo del Toro and Julian Sands. Each of the performances were specially recorded for the film with the exception of Bela Lugosi’s for The Tell-Tale Heart, which was recorded in the late 1940s. Lugosi, who toured a dramatic reading of the story in 1947, is thought to have recorded the tale for radio syndication.
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Production Company: Mélusine Productions
Producer: Stephen Roelants
Co Producers: Didier Brunner, Raul Garcia, Serge Ume
Director: Raul Garcia
Script: Raul Garcia and Stephen Roelants
Based on original stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Theme Music: Sergio de la Puente
Original Music: Sergio de la Puente
Additional Music: Javier Lopez de Guerena
Music Editor/Producer: Nus Cuevas
CGI Supervisor: Cedric Gervais
Supervisong Sound Editor: Juanma Benavides
Visual Effects Supervisor: Javier de Prado
Render: Regine Waleffe
Storyboard Artist: Antonio Santamaria
Animators: Tomislav Findrik, Raul Marinez, Gilles Rudziak, Regine Waleffe
Additional Editor: Jean-Luc Ciber
Colorist: Olivier Koos
Post-Production Coordinator: Stephane Kies
Length: 73 minutes
First Screened: Luxembourg City Film Festival, February 28, 2013
General Release: October 23, 2015
Cast:
Roger Cormen: Prince Prospero
Guillermo del Toro: Narrator of The Pit and the Pensulum
Cornelia Faunke: Death
Stephen Hughes: Crow/Edgar Allan Poe
Christopher Lee: Narrator of The Fall of the House of Usher
Bela Lugosi: Narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart
Julian Sands: Narrator of The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
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Bela Lugosi’s reading of The Tell-Tale Heart
The Bela Lugosi Blog 