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Germany's expressionist cinema dominates this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's page-turner, with [Robert Florey] supervising many Caligari-esque touches amid the atmospheric sets. [Bela Lugosi] manages to be both smarmy and sinister beneath his furrowed unibrow, part of his early 1930s terror trifecta sandwiched by Dracula and White Zombie (1932). And while it's not hard to spot the scenes with a guy cavorting in a gorilla suit (actually, he's Charlie Gemora, who went ape again in the 1954 remake Phantom of the Rue Morgue), Florey's flick boasts an air of demented decadence that surely would have been lost if it was made after the Production Code took effect.
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[Jeffrey Hatcher]'s script will delight fans of the 19th-century author, as he includes tales such as "The Black Cat" and "The Tell-Tale Heart" that reflect [Edgar Allan Poe]'s fascination with death and guilt, while "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" acknowledges him as a father of detective fiction.
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Fascinated with deductive thinking, Edgar Allan Poe wrote "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" in 1841, introducing readers to the brilliant, logical and reclusive detective C. Auguste Dupin. Although he had written a masterpiece a milestone in the genre of crime fiction Poe understood the story's limitations. "Where is the ingenuity in unraveling a web," he asked, "which you yourself have woven for the express purpose of unraveling?" So, a year later, he gave himself a more challenging assignment: Get Dupin to discover the murderer of real-life victim Mary Rogers before the New York City police solved the crime.
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Nearly 160 years after his miserable life ended, Edgar Allan Poe's imagination still is beating strong beneath the floorboards of American culture. The NFL's Baltimore Ravens are named for his naysaying bird, and an episode of "SpongeBob SquarePants" paid homage to his "Tell-Tale Heart. Poe was a literary writer ne plus ultra, a hero to Verlaine and Baudelaire, an avatar to Romantics, Symbolists and Surrealists. But, he is also a giant precursor to today's genre writing: the acknowledged father of the detective story, thanks to his story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"; the godfather of American horror writing and filmmaking (take a bow, Vincent Price); and a kindly uncle to science-fiction tradition, thanks to his hoax stories and his influence on H.G. Wells and Jules Verne.
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Nearly 160 years after his miserable life ended, Edgar Allan Poe's imagination is still beating strong beneath the floorboards of American culture. The NFL's Baltimore Ravens are named for his naysaying bird, and an episode of "SpongeBob SquarePants" paid homage to his "Tell-Tale Heart. Poe was a literary writer ne plus ultra, a hero to Verlaine and Baudelaire, an avatar to Romantics, Symbolists and Surrealists, but he also is a giant precursor to today's genre writing: the acknowledged father of the detective story, thanks to his story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue"; the godfather of American horror writing and filmmaking (take a bow, Vincent Price); and a kindly uncle to science-fiction tradition, thanks to his hoax stories and his influence on H.G. Wells and Jules Verne.
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Nicely organized, Melvin Matthews' systematic critique of the American horror movie genre as it is inextricably linked to American history is an enjoyable and thought-provoking read. Matthews explains how the phenomenon of cinematic horror continually reflects the social issues of the 20th century. For instance, the author asserts that films such as "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "Freaks" were expressions of society's growing distrust of politics and science, and these movies challenged the status quo and suppression of the common man.
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An energetic group of regulars and newcomers met Monday evening to discuss the first in the new series in the Sunday Gazette Mail's Monday Book Club, now into its fourth year. The group of books on the theme of British mysteries began with a classic mystery, "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins. Many people have called this the first mystery, though some others are earlier, notably Poe's "Murders In the Rue Morgue." However, there is no denying that "The Moonstone" is a classic of the genre, containing some of the devices that have become standard - red herrings, eccentric characters and a surprising ending.
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If you're the kind who likes to celebrate Halloween, this is your year. With the holiday falling on a Saturday, all kinds of community organizations, philanthropic concerns, arts groups, commercial operators and others are getting in on the action. Everything from the spirit of Edgar Allan Poe to the ghosts of Freeport's past will be probed, prodded and promoted. Here's some of what's happening:
...The Murders in the Rue Morgue, noon, Oct. 29, North Dining Hal...
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By Zinie Chen Sampson The Associated Press
... the first modern detective story, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," which appeared in 1841 in Grah...
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..., the ourang-outang in Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," horseface minstrelsy in the we...
