Spirits of The Dead

– Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: "Toby Dammit" features a disheveled drug..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.60 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and One Minute
Release Year:
1968
Original Name:
Histoires extraordinaires
Spirits of the Dead (1968) - Also known as Histoires extraordinaires

Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: "Toby Dammit" features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. "Metzengerstein" features a Mediveal countess who has a love-hate relationship with a black stallion - who it turns out is really her dead lover. "William Wilson" tells the story of a sadistic Austrian student with an exact double whom he later kills.

Spirits of the Dead (1968) - Trailer

Release Date:

23 Jul 1969

Language:

French, Italian, English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Federico Fellini, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim

Writer:

Edgar Allan Poe (story "Metzengerstein"), Roger Vadim (adaptation), Pascal Cousin (adaptation), Edgar Allan Poe (story "William Wilson"), Louis Malle (adaptation), Clement Biddle Wood (adaptation), Daniel Boulanger (dialogue), Edgar Allan Poe (story "Ne pariez jamais votre tête avec le Diable {Never Bet the Devil Your Head}"), Federico Fellini (adaptation), Bernardino Zapponi (adaptation)

Main Actors:

Brigitte Bardot, Alain Delon, Jane Fonda, Terence Stamp

Plot:

Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: "Toby Dammit" features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. "Metzengerstein" features a Mediveal countess who has a love-hate relationship with a black stallion - who, it turns out is really her dead lover. "William Wilson" tells the story of a sadistic Austrian student with an exact double whom he later kills.

Awards:

1 nomination.

Production:

Cocinor

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
90%