A Good Poe Adaption
A good film adaption of Edgar Allan Poe's story "Premature Burial".
A quote from Guy Carrell (Milland) "A recent invention by a man named Nobel... it's called dynamite." ---> Now the wiki says this film Set in the early dark Victorian-era 1830s or '40s but this cannot be because dynamite was patented in 1867 by Alfred Nobel while Poe died in 1849. So might be an anachronism within the film - but then again this is an *adaptation* of Poe's Premature Burial also the wiki must have gotten the time era of this film slightly off... that would mean this film would be set in 1867 or '68 (a RECENT invention says Carrell).
Now the tune "Molly Malone": according to the wiki: The song is not recorded earlier than 1883, when it was published in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was also published by Francis Brothers and Day in London in 1884 as a work written and composed by James Yorkston, of Edinburgh, with music arranged by Edmund Forman. If this is true then this movie would have been set in a little later era which would be after 1883. So maybe this movie is set somewhere between mid to late 1880's or 90's. - and this also means that dynamite would have been still considered a RECENT invention (to quote Carrell).
The wiki states: Embalming has been around for centuries - in middle ages and the renaissance is known as the Anatomists period of embalming while contemporary embalming methods advanced markedly during the height of the British Empire and the American Civil War. In the United States there was a period known as 'Funeral period of embalming' in 1861. Dr. Thomas Holmes is called 'father of American embalming' and, just prior to the American Civil War, he starting experimented with arterial embalming based on the earlier work of Jean Nicolas Gannal of Paris - AND In 1867, the German chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann discovered formaldehyde - again, all from the wiki. SO with all that said, if in fact this movie is set 1867 or '68 OR as late as 1880's or 90's then embalming was NOT overly common/wide spread -- this means there is a good chance of a premature burial to occur and Guy Carrell's fears are well founded.
Now outside of my minor nick-picking (trying to find the date this film is actually set in) this is a decent film.... it's quite good. Yes there has been real life cases of premature burials. And I am willing to admit that it is a fear of my own... Guy asks Emily in the beginning of the film if she can comprehend what it would be like to be buried alive - I for one can. Guy Carrell's fear is much worse than my own.
Worth watching if you like Poe, Milland, or horror movie classics.
7.5/10
A quote from Guy Carrell (Milland) "A recent invention by a man named Nobel... it's called dynamite." ---> Now the wiki says this film Set in the early dark Victorian-era 1830s or '40s but this cannot be because dynamite was patented in 1867 by Alfred Nobel while Poe died in 1849. So might be an anachronism within the film - but then again this is an *adaptation* of Poe's Premature Burial also the wiki must have gotten the time era of this film slightly off... that would mean this film would be set in 1867 or '68 (a RECENT invention says Carrell).
Now the tune "Molly Malone": according to the wiki: The song is not recorded earlier than 1883, when it was published in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was also published by Francis Brothers and Day in London in 1884 as a work written and composed by James Yorkston, of Edinburgh, with music arranged by Edmund Forman. If this is true then this movie would have been set in a little later era which would be after 1883. So maybe this movie is set somewhere between mid to late 1880's or 90's. - and this also means that dynamite would have been still considered a RECENT invention (to quote Carrell).
The wiki states: Embalming has been around for centuries - in middle ages and the renaissance is known as the Anatomists period of embalming while contemporary embalming methods advanced markedly during the height of the British Empire and the American Civil War. In the United States there was a period known as 'Funeral period of embalming' in 1861. Dr. Thomas Holmes is called 'father of American embalming' and, just prior to the American Civil War, he starting experimented with arterial embalming based on the earlier work of Jean Nicolas Gannal of Paris - AND In 1867, the German chemist August Wilhelm von Hofmann discovered formaldehyde - again, all from the wiki. SO with all that said, if in fact this movie is set 1867 or '68 OR as late as 1880's or 90's then embalming was NOT overly common/wide spread -- this means there is a good chance of a premature burial to occur and Guy Carrell's fears are well founded.
Now outside of my minor nick-picking (trying to find the date this film is actually set in) this is a decent film.... it's quite good. Yes there has been real life cases of premature burials. And I am willing to admit that it is a fear of my own... Guy asks Emily in the beginning of the film if she can comprehend what it would be like to be buried alive - I for one can. Guy Carrell's fear is much worse than my own.
Worth watching if you like Poe, Milland, or horror movie classics.
7.5/10
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