- The Pit and the Pendulum: A man (Cristiano Morroni) finds
himself alone in a white room with no exits, which drives him to
self-mutilation before long - and then a pit opens before him, that
grows wider and wider in diameter, soon pressing him to the wall,
until ...
- Alone: A man (Angelo Campus) finds himself tied up in a
warehouse, where Pepper Face (Dario Biancone), the guy who he bullied
in high school, tortures him first mentally, then physically. Turns
out the man and Pepper Face were in love with the same girl (Santa De
Santis) back in the day, the girl our hero eventually married - but
now Paperface has not only tied up our hero, he has also paid his wife
a visit - and cut off her ringfinger ... and maybe much more ...
- Loss of Breath: A loud-mouthed porn star (Francesco Malcolm)
insults the wrong man for having a small dick, as this man sends his
goons after all. And just when he needed his voice to talk himself out
of the situation, our hero loses his voice.
- Morgue Street: Two prostitutes (Federica Tommasi, Desiree
Giorgetti) are paid a visit by a lustful and lethal gorilla and its
perverted master.
- The Tell-Tale Heart: A man kills his lover because he had the
"evil eye" and then can't cope with it.
- The System of Dr. Tarr & Prof. Fether: A journalist stops
by the asylum of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether to interview them about
their more than controversial methods - to find them two complete
lunatics.
- The Premature Burial: A man (Lucio Zannella) finds himself in
a coffin, several feet below ground. After losing it for a bit, he
gets his senses together, scratches his way through the coffin cover,
digs his way to the surface, and ... and he might not be as alive
anymore as he thought he was.
P.O.E. - Project of Evil is without a doubt one of the most
unusual collection of Edgar Allan Poe-adaptations around, which is quite
an accomplishment in itself, as Poe is quite probably among the
most-adapted writers of all time. But this film takes things one step
further than most adaptations by successfully pushing the boundaries and
often re-interpreting the writer's work quite radically - which works in
some of the shorts in this film better than others -, and thus this film
range reaches from macabre thriller and absurd horror to experimental film
and dark comedy even. Definitely worth a look ... or more even!
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