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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0096009257996
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Platinum Disc
Manufacturer: Platinum Disc
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Platinum Disc
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 08, 2005
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 42688
Studio: Platinum Disc
Theatrical Release Date: 1986
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Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Powerful Performance
If you have not seen this movie I want to warn you that C. Dupin is portrayed as an old man who is retired from the police force and has no interest at all in solving mysteries. He doesn't care about anything except playing chess and he is so feeble that he can barely do that. After 40 minutes there is an actual murder and after that you get to watch twenty minutes of his daughter begging him to solve the case. Of course he finally decides to give the case a go and I would like to tell you what happened after that but unfortunately I fell asleep.
Rating:  - Scared the beejus out of me
I saw this when it aired back in 1986 I was 12 at the time, I was scared out of my mind! I had nightmares for years after watching this movie.
Rating:  - The Cover Is Worth The Price of This DVD.
It's amazing how poor, alcoholic, destitute Poe could write about Paris in 1889. The fog made it appear eerily like London. Perhaps he lived in Paris, the beautiful City of Love, before ending up as he did in Baltimore (America).
Young Val Kilmer played the understated Philippe who has fallen in love with Claire but tries to prove that her fiance is innocent of the murders. As he and her detective father discover who (or what) the murderer is, he uncovers the truth about Claire's fiance (also engaged to other wealthy women). Alas and alack.
George C. Scott does a commendable job as the French retired police detective who comes alive again. Sometimes, you might imagine that he is the one! The ending has a twist which is so Edgar Allen Poe, it surprises the viewer just the same. And I've been a fan of Poe's 'Ligeia' since 1960.
Rebecca DeMornay was perfect as Claire. The way the murderer is trapped makes you wonder if it could possibly be a cover up for the real one. With Poe, who knows?
Rating: - deflated
I'd seen this movie years ago and liked it, for that time, so....imagine my delight when I found the DVD in a discount bin! Thinking I'd found a treasure, I scooped it up and couldn't wait to get home to view it. After doing so, I was disappointed. If I hadn't read the book, I'd never had known it was set in Paris. No one even tried to "be French."
On the technical side, the DVD's sound is poor.
For what it is, it's ok, but I recommend sticking with the book. After all, you can never really improve on the original...
Rating: - Positively Scary
This movie gave me nightmares many nights after seeing it as a teenager. Yikes! I've never quite figured out why some people like to get scared out of their wits! Some things are so frightening, there is no pleasure to be found in the experience.
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