Review by columbusbuck

Yes, it's true, it's a rare find. But just because something is old, that does not mean it's worthy of praise. This is dull film with over emoting from the clearly spoiled and arrogant leading character. This lady has the smooth brain- believing just reading a letter will make her possessed. She runs around her uncle's castle increasingly agitating the viewer with her superfluous-ness.

A book her highness draws from the mansion's library, entitled 'The Grotesque and Arabesque', is a collection of short stories dedicated to a hostile Colonel who wrote a book called 'Southern Gentlemen Vindicated by the Defeat of the terroristic and treasonous Northern Abolitionist', or some such nonsense. This revisionist so honored is the icon of the book's author - Edgar Allen Poe. The Edgar Allen Poe.

I'm not sure what's more offensive - that Poe thing or this movie for doing a damn good job of putting me to sleep.