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A Very Poe Halloween
A Halloween treat: Extraordinary Tales, the animated film featuring the voices of great movie masters of terror, will be screened at the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, on Halloween night, and in selected theaters around the country during the same week. A shocking animated anthology of horror comprised of five short stories based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Extraordinary Tales includes the talent of Sir Christopher Lee in his last work before his passing, and the original Dracula, Bela Lugosi, coming back from the land of the dead in a lost recording of “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Roger Corman, Julian Sands and Guillermo del Toro complete the cast of this spine chilling work that mixes different styles of animation. The film has received an unusual U.S. release for an independent film, with a limited theatrical release in 20 cities around the country, in addition to distribution as VOD in digital platforms like Amazon, iTunes or Vudu. Extraordinary Tales is the latest work of Raúl García, 2009 Goya Award winner for Best Animated Film with his directorial debut The Missing Lynx and producer of the Academy Award Nominee short film The Lady and the Ripper. Based in the United States for more than two decades, the director is an animation veteran, having worked on Aladdin, Pocahontas, Hercules and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. García is currently collaborating with Edward James Olmos as animation director of the Mexican-U.S film El Americano. Gabriel Lerman