Extraordinary Tales

An animated feature film based on the masterpiece of Edgar Allen Poe

Five stories of Edgar Allan Poe, each crafted in a graphic design style uniquely suited to the individual segments and inspired by visual artists and illustrators, whose style best expresses the psychological depth and complexity of Poe’s dark universe. The animation styles and techniques used for each segment vary with the graphic styles as we use textures, rendering techniques, colorization, and mixtures of 2D and 3D backgrounds with 3D animation to uniquely express the psychological adventures of Poe’s characters as they twist and turn in the darkest crevices of his tortured imagination.

Poe’s spirit, embodied in his most famous creation, the Crow, faces Death while visiting the grave of his beloved wife Virginia Clemm. The time has come and Death wants to steal the poet’s soul but Poe needs to linger a little bit more in the world of the living and soon he engages with Death in a creepy story-telling game where both parts play the role of a macabre Scheherazade. The stories they exchange are the extraordinary tales written during his tortured life.

With each grisly tale Poe tries to buy time in a mortal world as the writer reflects on his own existence and realizes he has led a life obsessed with death and embittered by the loss of loved ones.

"The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Tell Tale Heart", "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Masque of the Red Death" are nothing but reflections of Poe’s fear of dying alone and forgotten.