. . . Poe's THE TELL-TALE HEART bears more resemblance to a muncher of the corny cob than something from the famed "Master of the Macabre," eerie horror and spine-tingling suspense do NOT seem to be the goal of its makers. Rather, this TELL-TALE HEART mainly serves as a 1940s plea for the American Basic Right now referred to as the Miranda Warning. If you expand the latter to include your Right to a Counsel such as "Jack Cochran" (famous for saying, "If the accused has to sit, you must acquit"), THE TELL-TALE HEART can be seen as a clarion call for all the Rights enjoyed by the Dylans, Osamas, and Travises of Today. Statistics indicate that the majority of class bullies go on to law enforcement careers, and the cops brow-beating the bullied "servant" during this live-action short clearly have been engaging in this sort of abuse against the Common Man all their lives. However, like many films with a political ax to grind, entertainment niceties such as sound plotting, witty dialogue, a coherent tone, and passable acting get dumped out the window with the bathwater from THE TELL-TALE HEART.
Review of The Tell-Tale Heart
