Written by Garrett DeHart
Directed by Garrett DeHart, Timothy Georges, and Tommy Heffron
New Lexicon Productions
Release: June 2011
I'm the "Imp" prisoner in this adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's short 'narrator' stories like The Tell-Tale Heart. My lines are those of the narrator in The Imp of the Perverse, "I am safe. Yes, safe" etc. A stand-alone film, this short will also be used to secure funding for a feature film that will combine several of Poe's stories that feature a narrator. This was shot on a blue screen in HDV (F 900) so the footage will be run through an intensive post-production process, the goal being something that "looks like a dark Romantic painting come to life," a realist depiction of the story as it might have evolved in Poe’s dark imagination.
See the Trailer or watch short video about it: Behind the scenes.
New Lexicon Productions won the 'Best Use of Character' award in the 2009 Atlanta 48-hour Film Festival.
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CAST
Larry Brewer |
CREW
Garret DeHart, writer and director |
Working Title: A Tell-Tale Heart
This short film will be used as a fund raising tool for an untitled feature-length project that will depict five of Poe’s stories.
Synopsis: Set on a foggy night in a Richmond, Virginia jail cell in the middle of 19th century--the time and location where Poe did most of his best work. Jailed in the cell, the viewer will find five of Poe’s characters from five favorite stories:
the narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart,
the narrator of The Black Cat,
the narrator of The Imp of the Perverse,
the narrator of The Raven, and ‘Montresor’, and
the narrator of The Cask of Amontillado,
all of whom await their deaths by hanging at dawn. The gallows from which they will hang wait in a courtyard just outside the jail, visible through the jail cell window. In the initial scene of the film, Edgar Allen Poe himself is led into the cell, having been arrested for public drunkenness. It’s during his time in the shared, dingy cell, that he hears each of the characters tell their tales. The narrators’ monologs will be directly derived from Poe’s texts insomuch as they will set the tone for the story.
