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The Tell-Tale Heart

1953 · 8 min

A short, stylized plunge into a guilty mind, all warped angles and creeping sound that tightens around you like a held breath.

Overview
A man's sanity is a point of contention as he confesses to murdering an elderly man, driven by the victim's pale blue 'vulture eye', culminating in guilt-induced auditory hallucinations of the victim's beating heart.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • guilt
  • madness
  • obsession
  • death
  • crime
Places
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • unreliable narrator
  • single location
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror8
Humour1
Realism4
Romance0
Tension8
Darkness9
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
animation, horror, crime
Directed by
Ted Parmelee
Written by
Bill Scott, Fred Grable
Starring
James Mason, Jack Mather
Runtime
8 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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