Cartoon Sunday: Edgar Allan Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart (1954)

How's it going lurkers? Last Sunday, I mentioned giving you a double dose of Edgar Allan Poe, if you may recall.

In that last Cartoon Sunday blog, I briefly summarized his short story, "The Cask Of Amontillado." This was followed up with a 3-D animated version of Poe "narrating" it.

We have the classic 1954 animated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" for today. The story's about deranged boarder, who SLAUGHTERED his landlord supposedly because he was possessed an "evil eye."

A "boarder" is someone, who pays to live and have meals daily at another person's house or at a school. 

In other words, a boarder is like a tenant, in case you are unfamiliar with the term.

The boarder (narrator) did not murder his landlord out of greed in "The Tell-Tale Heart." The narrator is psychotically OBSESSED with his landlord's so-called "evil eye" and begins rationalizing, that he is not.

In reality, the boarder is more deranged than he wants to accept. He is being haunted in his house by the heartbeats of the man he murdered over his (landlord's) eyes. The more I think about "The Tell-Tale Heart," it somewhat reminds me of Octavio Paz's "The Blue Bouquet."

You should read "The Blue Bouquet" by Octavio Paz, in case you haven't already. Rather than explaining every little detail, here is Columbia Picture's animated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" for today's Cartoon Sunday.

Edgar Allan Poe: "The Tell-Tale Heart" (1954)