The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)

Directed by

Ted Parmelee

Genre

crime film, horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

8 min

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 87 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man is haunted by the sound of a beating heart after killing an old man. He grows increasingly paranoid and confesses his crime to the police.

tenseanxiousclaustrophobicunsettlingbleakvisceralhaunting

What happens

The Tell-Tale Heart is a 1953 American adult animated psychological horror short film produced by UPA, directed by Ted Parmelee, and narrated by James Mason. The screenplay by Bill Scott and Fred Grable is based on the 1843 short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. The British Board of Film Censors made this the first cartoon to receive an adults-only X certificate in the United Kingdom. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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