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Raúl García's "Extraordinary Tales" is a vivified compilation film of Edgar Allan Poe stories described by illuminating presences like Christopher Lee, Guillermo Del Toro and even Bela Lugosi himself (utilizing old sound footage). To be limit, it's sort of hard to botch that up excessively. Christopher Lee perusing Edgar Allan Poe? Sign me up. Both the source material and the man understanding it are fanciful. Also, that intrinsic cool element in "Extraordinary Tales" conveys the last item far, despite the fact that its deficiencies do once in a while constrain me to think about whether it could have been an artful culmination rather than a minor interest. As seems to be, a couple of choices made by García in the filmmaking procedure hold "Extraordinary Tales" again from its actual potential, in spite of the fact that on the off chance that it acquaints filmgoers with the works of Poe (or Lee or Lugosi, besides), it's done some great.

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García and his group quicken every short film in altogether different styles, returning to a wraparound discussion between a raven and a statue in a burial ground between shorts. It begins with the astonishing "The Fall of the House of Usher," read by Christopher Lee. The liveliness is shockingly level, looking regularly like a last-era computer game with an excess of CGI, when hand-drawn would have given this environmental piece more punch. In any case, it's anything but difficult to value the budgetary flexibility that activity gives García with "Usher," as the house comes apart in a manner that would have taken a toll a studio $80 million were it cutting edge.

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From numerous points of view, the second short story picked is Poe's most well known and the most interestingly imagined inside "Extraordinaryl Tales." An exceedingly truncated (they all are, and infrequently frustratingly so) form of "The Tell-Tale Heart" is told by a scratchy sound of the unparalleled Bela Lugosi, joined by starkly distinctive activity in sharp blacks and blinding whites that is intended to conjure popular comic craftsman Alberto Breccia. As a standalone piece, in spite of the alters to the source, this is an interesting piece of silver screen in that it catches impacts from around the globe, bringing Lugosi, Poe, and Breccia under one bent tent.

"The Facts on account of M. Valdemar" (described by Julian Sands), "The Pit and the Pendulum" (described by Guillermo Del Toro) and "The Masque of Red Death" aren't as powerful, particularly the last one, which may be the most grounded outwardly yet shuns all portrayal and has no dialog to tell this story just with pictures. I'm not certain taking endlessly the film's most noteworthy resource—Poe's way with words—was the sharpest approach to end the piece.

What's more, that is an inclination I had a couple too often in "Extraordinary Tales"— asking why García settled on a certain visual decision, or why he cut a sure part of Poe's stories while concentrating on another (the entire thing just runs 73 minutes, when it would have profited by being twice as long and letting Poe's splendor wait before hopping on to the following piece). Once more, Poe's narrating blessing is so ageless, and the voice performers collected so enrapturing, that "Extraordinary Tales" can't resist the urge to take a shot at some level. It just never entirely transcends that faint praises