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Morgue Street (2012)

Morgue Street poster
Directed by
Alberto Viavattene
Genre
horror film
Country
Italy
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A short film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's story about a double murder in a locked room. A detective tries to solve the mysterious crime in 1840s Paris.

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What happens

Morgue Street is a 2012 Italian horror short film directed by Alberto Viavattene and based on Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". The film gained notoriety when it was banned in Australia by the Australian Classification Board before it could screen at Sydney's A Night of Horror film festival. It has been praised by Jack Ketchum, Brian Yuzna, and Uwe Boll. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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