P.O.E. - Project of Evil
P.O.E. 2

Italy 2012
produced by
Domiziano Cristopharo, Edo Tagliavini (associate), Nathan Nicholovitch (associate), David Marocco (associate), Giuliano Giacomelli (associate) for APC Independent Procuctions, Revok S.R.L., Goaway Film
directed by segment The Pit and the Pendulum: Donatello Della Pepa; segment Alone: Angelo Capasso, Giuseppe Capasso; segment Loss of Breath: Edo Tagliavini; segment Morgue Street: Alberto Viavattene; segment The Tell-Tale Heart: Natan Nicholovitch; segment The System of Dr. Tarr & Prof. Fether: Domiziano Cristopharo; segment The Premature Burial: Giuliano Giacomelli
starring segment The Pit and the Pendulum: Cristiano Morroni; segment Alone: Dario Biancone, Angelo Campus, Santa De Santis; segment Loss of Breath: Francesco Malcolm, Alessandro Valori, Alessandro Rella, Paolo Ricci; Tania Love, Manlio Maresca, Lara Russo; segment Morgue Street: Federica Tommasi, Desiree Giorgetti, Mario Cellini, Roberto Nali; segment The Tell-Tale Heart: Kandara, Nyang, Marianne Bjornseth, Chom Sangsanuth, Paris, Guillaume Zacharie, Keng, Ra, Prouhn, Bav Srey Oun, Lorm Phasy, Main Vorry, Lorenzo Cammisa (voice); segment The System of Dr. Tarr & Prof. Fether: Dario Biancone, Virgilio Olivari, Claudio Zanelli, Andrea Autullo, Giovanni La Gorga, Alessandro Russo, Edo Tagliavini, Angelo Campus, David Marocco, Walter Falls, Viktor Karam, Samuele Paravati, Musa Ndagi; segment The Premature Burial: Lucio Zannella
screenplay by Donatello Della Pepa, Luca Ruocco (segment The Pit and the Pendulum); Angelo Capasso, Giuseppe Capasso (segment Alone); Edo Tagliavini (segment Loss of Breath); Emiliano Ranziani, Alberto Viavattene (segment Morgue Street); Nathan Nicholovitch, David D'Ingéo (segment The Tell-Tale Heart); Andrea Cavaletto (segment The System of Dr. Tarr & Prof. Fether); Roberto Giacomelli, Giuliano Giacomelli (segment The Premature Burial); based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe, music by Gian Luca Nigro, Luca Toller, Sara Ardizzoni, Paolo Testa, Gabriele Elliot Parrini, Anrico Angelini

P.O.E.

review by
Mike Haberfelner

• The Pit and the Pendulum: A man (Cristiano Morroni) finds himself alone in a white room with no exits, which drives him to self-mutilation before long - and then a pit opens before him, that grows wider and wider in diameter, soon pressing him to the wall, until ...
• Alone: A man (Angelo Campus) finds himself tied up in a warehouse, where Pepper Face (Dario Biancone), the guy who he bullied in high school, tortures him first mentally, then physically. Turns out the man and Pepper Face were in love with the same girl (Santa De Santis) back in the day, the girl our hero eventually married - but now Paperface has not only tied up our hero, he has also paid his wife a visit - and cut off her ringfinger ... and maybe much more ...
• Loss of Breath: A loud-mouthed porn star (Francesco Malcolm) insults the wrong man for having a small dick, as this man sends his goons after all. And just when he needed his voice to talk himself out of the situation, our hero loses his voice.
• Morgue Street: Two prostitutes (Federica Tommasi, Desiree Giorgetti) are paid a visit by a lustful and lethal gorilla and its perverted master.
• The Tell-Tale Heart: A man kills his lover because he had the "evil eye" and then can't cope with it.
• The System of Dr. Tarr & Prof. Fether: A journalist stops by the asylum of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether to interview them about their more than controversial methods - to find them two complete lunatics.
• The Premature Burial: A man (Lucio Zannella) finds himself in a coffin, several feet below ground. After losing it for a bit, he gets his senses together, scratches his way through the coffin cover, digs his way to the surface, and ... and he might not be as alive anymore as he thought he was.

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P.O.E. - Project of Evil is without a doubt one of the most unusual collection of Edgar Allan Poe-adaptations around, which is quite an accomplishment in itself, as Poe is quite probably among the most-adapted writers of all time. But this film takes things one step further than most adaptations by successfully pushing the boundaries and often re-interpreting the writer's work quite radically - which works in some of the shorts in this film better than others -, and thus this film range reaches from macabre thriller and absurd horror to experimental film and dark comedy even.

Definitely worth a look ... or more even!

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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