Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Oct 15, 2023
On paper, Universal's 1932 Murders in the Rue Morgue sounds terrific; it adapts a chilling story from Edgar Allan Poe, stars Bela Lugosi, and offers Expressionist cinematography by Karl Freund, complete with all the lurid sensibility that Pre-Code horror can provide. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't read more
This is a 1986 television movie based on Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale, with George C. Scott as master criminologist Auguste Dupin. I remember seeing ads for this before its first showing, but for whatever reason I didn't see it. I stumbled upon it recently on the Tubi streaming channel. read more
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1949) changed the literary landscape and the reading habits of generations forever with his creation of the logically-minded amateur detective Auguste Dupin in The Murders in the Rue Morgue, 1841, The Mystery of Marie Roget, 1842, and The Purloined Letter, 1844.The Murder read more
Earlier this year Shout Factory began issuing Blu-ray sets of various classic Universal horror films. One movie that they decided to give an individual release to is the 1932 version of Edgar Allan Poe's famous tale, MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE.
Universal's MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE has for the most read more
Shout Factory, under the company's Scream Factory label, has released a Blu-ray double feature consisting of two American-International horror films: MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (1971), and THE DUNWICH HORROR (1970).
At first glance one would wonder why these two movies have been paired together, but read more
*This post contains spoilers for both Poe’s story and the 1932 film adaptation.
Edgar Allan Poe, writer of The Murders in the Rue Morgue (among many other amazing tales and poems). (Image via everywriterresource.com)
Edgar Allan Poe is one of my absolute favorite writers, and The Murders in th read more
If it weren’t for director Szwarc actually being French, The Murders in the Rue Morgue might be the perfect post-modern adaptation. It’s Americans pretending (without accents, thankfully) to be French. Poe, an American, had never been to France when he wrote the original story. So there read more
