The defence The Arthouse Gremlin
“Its refusal to behave is the point.”
The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.
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Extraordinary Tales
Horror · Animation · Mystery · 2015
Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.
Movie details
Extraordinary Tales
2015 Horror · Animation · Mystery 1h 13m
Critical arithmetic
One number, for now.
Scores change. Arguments endure.
TMDB
6.5 / 10
Community rating
Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.
CriticWise case file
What this film says about your taste.
Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.
The archetype split
Who fights over Extraordinary Tales?
For the defence
The Arthouse Gremlin
“The stranger, the better.”
Read their case For the prosecution
The Popcorn Loyalist
“Big screen, big feelings, no apologies.”
Read their objectionThe split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.
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Names above the title
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Cast & crew
Directed by
Raúl García
Written by
Raúl García
Christopher Lee
Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Fall of the House of Usher')
Bela Lugosi
Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Tell-Tale Heart')
Julian Sands
Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar')
Guillermo del Toro
Narrator (voice) (segment 'The Pit and the Pendulum')
Roger Corman
Prince Prospero (voice) (segment 'The Masque of the Red Death')
Stephen Hughes
Crow / Poe (voice)
Cornelia Funke
Death (voice)
Court is in session
Put Extraordinary Tales on trial.
Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.
The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist
“Oddness is not depth.”
A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.