sometimes i wonder if robert eggers has ever experienced positive emotions

I have to say that this nails the atmosphere that Edgar Allen Poe's story creates better than any other adaptation of tale.. Hats off to an inexperienced Rob Eggers 13 years ago for nailing that. Atmospheric storytelling has always been his sharpest tool, something he's now masterful at.Stuff like this reminds me of looking back at Tim Burton's drawings when he was a young adult. Two brilliant directors with a very unique quality thats been developing for years unlike everyone else in the industry.

That puppet or whatever you’d call it was extremely well done. It was a great choice for an uncanny valley character, from the perspective of the narrator, who had a strange horror about the old man.

Why does the Butler look so much like an older Harry Styles?

The amount of improvement between this and Hansel and Gretel is fantastic. Not that his Hansel and Gretel was bad considering the budget issues the first clearly had. But the first shows more so the promise he has, and this delivers on it. Frankly I don't know why someone didn't give him a shot to make something earlier. By this point he was ready. Yet kept doing costume designs for years before the VVitch

This is the closest adaptation of Poe's story I have ever seen. Well done.

Robert Eggers has really come so far as a filmmaker after watching this. I've always been a fan of his work since "The Witch". But "The Tell-Tale Heart" freaked me out as a kid and still remains my favorite Poe story. Eggers' version is the closest you could get to the original story, especially to his attention to detail in accuracy. plus the puppet old man looked really freaky. Plus the smiling policemen at the end were creepy as hell. Eggers, you genius!

Damn even his early stuff was atmospheric as fuck.

This is amazing. I aspire to make short films as good as this. In Eggers we trust omg

It’s funny, I just realized something. In the SpongeBob episode where Mr Krabs tries to get rid of SpongeBob’s new boots the scene where he confesses to taking the boots he exclaims, “THERE HERE, UNDER THE FLOORBOARD!” I’m pretty sure that was a reference to the Tell Tale Heart. Man it’s crazy the things you realize and learn as you get older.

early hints of a master director! so inspiring!

Wasn't sure whether this would see the light of day. So glad it was finally released.

Generally adaptations of Poe’s story are either set in the wrong era or in a “Hammer” film faux historical era.

Egeers was already fuming that his Hansel and Gretel film was published since he hated it. I'd love to see him react to this seeing the light of day. He'd burst into flames.

can see all the great references he uses , especially in The Lighthouse.

I've never hated youtube shitty compression more than I do right now

If you enjoyed this movie I really, really, really highly recommend the movie that clearly inspired it: "Institute Benjamenta" from 1996 by the Quay Brothers. The camera, light, framing, the music, the graphic design, the sound design, the time-period and setdesign are all like the Quay Brothers do it. Honestly, if it hadn’t said “by Robert Eggers” I would have thought it must have been by the Quays.

The sound design is pure ASMR

Woah thank you so much for Uploading this!! Amazing to see one of Robert Eggers first real Projects

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