The Tell-Tale Heart (1960)

Directed by

Ernest Morris

Genre

horror film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 18m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man with a secret guilt struggles with his own mind after committing a murder. The story follows his growing paranoia as he becomes haunted by the sound of a beating heart.

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What happens

The Tell-Tale Heart (also known as The Hidden Room of 1,000 Horrors) is a 1960 British second feature ('B') horror film directed by Ernest Morris and starring Laurence Payne, Adrienne Corri and Dermot Walsh. It was produced by the Danzigers. The screenplay by Brian Clemens and Eldon Howard is a loose adaptation of the 1843 short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. The film was released in England in December 1960, and in the U.S. in February 1962 as The Hidden Room of 1,000 Horrors. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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