The Tell Tale Heart

TTTH has all of my favorite things in it (Which also puts my standards for quality very high). This project hit all the notes I would hope with a beautifully brutal visual style and amazing performance from the narrator. Very fun! Looking forward to more!

Edgar Allen Poe's Tell Tale Heart is a classic masterpiece. What's better than that? Perhaps the equally matched modern-day masterpiece film version of the same story! This film excels in presenting this story how I wish every kid in a middle school English class could have experienced it. The direction of this film is superb and each frame is expertly crafted to strike terror and fascination into the viewer simultaneously. It's so beautiful you want to look, yet so ghastly you want to shut your eyes. Very few movies have frightened me in their hour and a half run time like this movie has in its 20 minutes. It's a film that exemplifies what true horror should be and how you adapt a classic piece! McClain Lindquist is a visionary who knows how to frighten at the same level as those from Tobe Hooper to John Carpenter.

Very well executed, lightning, script, color grading, acting, sound, direction! Very fun to watch, very easy to reward! Peephole Filmfest.

A brilliant interpretation of the classic Poe story.

Truly the best and most entertaining version I've ever seen.

McClain Lindquist and his team show off some true craftsmanship throughout this short film! It is both colorful and macabre. The blood reds of the special effects are accentuated by the neon red lighting of the photography. And despite a longer runtime for a short film, the edit is energetic and holds your attention. If there's anything that must be said, you should go into this film with some knowledge of the story it's adapted from. The pacing and temporal jumping, which highlight the character's slipping grip on reality, will leave you a bit lost if you don't already know the beats of the story. Apologies for the pun.