





Spicing things up with fragments from several other Poe stories, this french feature is at least as faithless to its source material as the american counterpart from the same year.
Exceedingly slow, taking almost ten lagging minutes to even arrive at the »maison« – while a burial scene is bizarrely and almost sickeningly prolonged! At times suggestive, this also stretches the concise story without adding much more than evocative imagery, mannered silent-era acting, and well-worn horror tropes. Not in my book of premature burial and »harrowing monotony«.