I enjoyed the series more than I thought I would.
They did an interesting mix of many of Poe’s work, other than The Fall of the House of Usher. The Black Cat, The Mask of the Red death and the Cask of Amontillado are some of them.
Mike Flanagan did a pretty good job in weaving them together.
Yes. He took some of the murders from Poe's stories and did a more modern update on them. Murders in the Rue Morgue involved and orangutang killing 2 people. Rue Morgue was a French Street , here Rue was the laboratory.
The Pit and the pendulum story had a pendulum too operated by a mad scientist as part of his torture dungeon. I saw this 60s movie back in the 70s on fright nite Tv movies, starring original terror master Vincent Price.
The 'Pit part' is a girl he tortured by gagging her and locking her in an 'iron maiden' - a cabinet w a small window. After they kill the Vincent Price character they brick up the pit so no one can ever use the torture deivices again. Unknowingly they entomb the girl still alive in the iron maiden.
The update was Griswold being bricked up. The original was much more terrifying.
Gris being buried alive behind the brick wall was from The Cask of Amontillado.
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