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The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart

7.3/ 10

TMDB Rating

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1953

Release Year

8 min

Runtime

Animation
Horror
Crime

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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Keywords

tale
murder
madman
short film

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

July 10, 2025

7
7/10

I loved this. It’s a dark and eerily menacing story of a man, an eye, a murder and some great vocal characterisation from James Mason. Like many mad men, this one believed himself perfectly sane as he began to have issues with one is his elderly neighbours. This old fellow never troubled him, nor wa

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