Anecdotes

On February 14, 2014, In an interview Rose McGowan admitted once The Tell Tale Heart got released she had no plans to watch it because of how disappointed by it she was. Saying: "I felt a little duped by Tell Tale. Blinded by Poe, as it were. Sometimes you think people have a strong vision, and it's often not the case."

Different real-life murders have been cited as the inspiration for Poe's tale. Among them is the 1830 murder of Joseph White of Salem, Massachusetts. The special prosecutor on the case, Daniel Webster, published his Argument on the Trial as a pamphlet. In the text, he writes that the murderer's guilt will eventually reveal itself and that "the secret which the murderer possesses soon comes to possess him...it overcomes him...He feels it beating at his heart, rising to his throat, and demanding disclosure. He thinks the whole world sees it in his face, reads it in his eyes, and almost hears its workings in the very silence of his thoughts. It has become his master."

Based on Edgar Allan Poe's, The Tell-Tale Heart.

The film was produced by the companies Popart Film Factory & Leverage Entertainment. Filming began in October 2011 in New Orleans. The first image from the set was released on October 28, 2011. Even though Promotional photos were released on July 20, 2012 the trailer for the film wasn't released till May 10, 2013.