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1. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Passed | 61 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
A mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Sidney Fox, Leon Ames, Bert Roach
Votes: 5,263
2. The Black Cat (1934)
Not Rated | 65 min | Crime, Horror, Romance
American honeymooners in Hungary become trapped in the home of a Satan-worshipping priest when the bride is taken there for medical help following a road accident.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Julie Bishop
Votes: 13,002 | Gross: $0.51M
3. The Raven (1935)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Horror
A brilliant surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture grows dangerously obsessed with a young socialite whose life he's saved.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews, Irene Ware
Votes: 6,652
4. Mystery of Marie Roget (1942)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A detective tries to unravel the strange circumstances surrounding the death of a young actress.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Patric Knowles, Maria Montez, Maria Ouspenskaya, John Litel
Votes: 332
5. Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
When several women are found mutilated and murdered, the Paris police are baffled as to who the killer may be. All evidence points to Dupin, but soon it becomes apparent that it is someone (or something) stronger and deadlier than a human.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Karl Malden, Claude Dauphin, Patricia Medina, Steve Forrest
Votes: 1,128 | Gross: $1.45M
6. House of Usher (1960)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Horror
Upon entering his fiancée's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Harry Ellerbe
Votes: 15,446 | Gross: $3.16M
7. The Tell-Tale Heart (1960)
78 min | Horror
While called the Tell Tale Heart, the plot differs significantly from Poe's short story of the same name.
Director: Ernest Morris | Stars: Laurence Payne, Adrienne Corri, Dermot Walsh, Selma Vaz Dias
Votes: 614
8. The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, Luana Anders
Votes: 16,404 | Gross: $4.36M
9. The Premature Burial (1962)
Unrated | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Ray Milland, Hazel Court, Richard Ney, Heather Angel
Votes: 4,861
10. The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Horror
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston
Votes: 16,239
11. The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A man's obsession with his dead wife drives a wedge between him and his new bride.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Vincent Price, Elizabeth Shepherd, John Westbrook, Derek Francis
Votes: 6,884
12. City in the Sea (1965)
Unrated | 84 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
In 1903 Cornwall, a group of locals discover an underwater city, dating back to 1803, that hides a society of smugglers and aquatic creatures.
Directors: Jacques Tourneur, Ishirô Honda | Stars: Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, David Tomlinson, Susan Hart
Votes: 2,601
13. Witchfinder General (1968)
Unrated | 86 min | Drama, Horror
A young soldier seeks to put an end to the evils caused by a vicious witch-hunter when the latter terrorizes his fiancée and kills her uncle.
Director: Michael Reeves | Stars: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Patrick Wymark
Votes: 12,225
14. Spirits of the Dead (1968)
R | 121 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A trio of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a cruel countess haunted by her cousin's stallion, a sadistic soldier haunted by his doppelgänger, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
Directors: Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim | Stars: Jane Fonda, Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Terence Stamp
Votes: 6,948
15. The Oblong Box (1969)
R | 96 min | Horror
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Sir Edward occasionally escapes and causes havoc around the town.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Vincent Price, Alister Williamson, Christopher Lee, Rupert Davies
Votes: 3,929
16. Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
PG-13 | 87 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Paris...at the turn of the century. Inspector Vidocq investigates a series of unexplained murders at a Grand Guignol-type theatre...where the players have suddenly become real-life victims. Based on the story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Director: Gordon Hessler | Stars: Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann, Adolfo Celi
Votes: 1,552
17. The Black Cat (1981)
R | 92 min | Horror
A professor with the psychic ability to communicate with the dead uses his powers on his pet cat in order to take vengeance upon his enemies.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, David Warbeck, Al Cliver
Votes: 4,242
18. Revenge in the House of Usher (1983)
Not Rated | 93 min | Horror
A young doctor visits the secluded home of his ailing mentor - Eric Usher - who believes the house itself is alive and plotting to drive him insane, manifesting itself through ghostly apparitions.
Directors: Jesús Franco, Olivier Mathot | Stars: Howard Vernon, Antonio Mayans, Lina Romay, Fata Morgana
Votes: 573
19. The Masque of the Red Death (1989)
R | 93 min | Horror
Lovely photographer Rebecca winds up in a Bavarian castle at a "Masque of the Red Death" party hosted by the wealthy Ludwig. Mayhem ensues as assorted Poe story devices start doing away with the guests.
Director: Alan Birkinshaw | Stars: Frank Stallone, Brenda Vaccaro, Herbert Lom, Michelle McBride
Votes: 413
20. Masque of the Red Death (1989)
R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
With a deadly plague ravaging his Renaissance kingdom, Prince Prospero invites his friends to retire to the protection of his castle for ongoing revels, leaving the peasantry to die. But ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Brand | Stars: Patrick Macnee, Adrian Paul, Clare Hoak, Jeff Osterhage
Votes: 353
21. The Black Cat (1989)
R | 89 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An actress starts seeing visions of a witch character called Levana, which she's supposed to play in an upcoming horror movie, and slowly begins to discover a supernatural plot against her life.
Director: Luigi Cozzi | Stars: Florence Guérin, Urbano Barberini, Caroline Munro, Brett Halsey
Votes: 790
22. The House of Usher (1989)
R | 92 min | Horror
An engaged couple going to the man's uncle's house get into a car accident. The woman becomes trapped in the house with deranged residents and weird happenings.
Director: Alan Birkinshaw | Stars: Oliver Reed, Donald Pleasence, Romy Walthall, Rufus Swart
Votes: 832
23. Buried Alive (1989)
R | 91 min | Horror, Thriller
A new teacher at a facility for juvenile delinquent girls starts to suspect foul play when girls begin to inexplicably disappear one by one.
Director: Gérard Kikoïne | Stars: Robert Vaughn, Donald Pleasence, Karen Lorre, John Carradine
Votes: 1,180
24. Two Evil Eyes (1990)
R | 120 min | Horror
A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.
Directors: Dario Argento, George A. Romero | Stars: Adrienne Barbeau, Harvey Keitel, Ramy Zada, Bingo O'Malley
Votes: 8,143 | Gross: $0.35M
25. The Haunting of Morella (1990)
R | 82 min | Horror, Romance, Thriller
Loosely based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe, a witch is sent to death, only to try & return from the grave, seventeen years later, to possess her daughter's adult body.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Nicole Eggert, David McCallum, Christopher Halsted, Lana Clarkson
Votes: 1,017 | Gross: $1.55M
26. The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)
R | 97 min | Horror, Romance
Horror film set in 1492 Toledo, Spain, depicting the cruel deeds of a monk named Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition.
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Lance Henriksen, Stephen Lee, William Norris, Mark Margolis
Votes: 5,452 | Gross: $0.00M
27. Extraordinary Tales (2013)
Not Rated | 73 min | Animation, Horror, Mystery
An animated anthology of five tales adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's stories.
Director: Raul Garcia | Stars: Christopher Lee, Bela Lugosi, Julian Sands, Guillermo del Toro
Votes: 3,562
28. Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
PG-13 | 112 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An Oxford graduate takes up a job in a mental asylum, only to discover that the "revolutionary" new treatments are inhumane, and that there is more going on than meets the eye.
Director: Brad Anderson | Stars: Kate Beckinsale, Jim Sturgess, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson
Votes: 60,377
29. The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)
TV-MA | 62 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher have built a pharmaceutical company into an empire of wealth, privilege and power; however, secrets come to light when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying.
Stars: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Mary McDonnell, Henry Thomas
Votes: 109,093
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