The Tell-Tale Heart is a 1953 animated short film produced by UPA, which retells the Edgar Allan Poe story of a man who is haunted by the beating heart of the man he has murdered. It stars the voices of Stanley Baker and James Mason.

The movie was adapted by Fred Gable and Bill Scott and directed by Ted Parmelee.

It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Cartoons. In 1994 it was voted #24 of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time by members of the animation field. In 2001 the United States Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

The short is included as an extra on the first Hellboy DVD.

The Tell-Tale Heart (1960) is a film adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe short story of the same name, directed by Ernest Morris.

Adapted from the story by Edgar Allan Poe: A young man is being dominated, insulted, and mistreated by the older man whose lodgings he shares. Finally, one night he enters the older man's room and kills him. Afterwards, the young man grows increasingly nervous, and he becomes convinced that he can still hear the dead man's heart beating. Written by Snow Leopard

Set in the late 19th Century, a slightly unhinged man begins to obsess about his neighbour's 'vulture eye'. He is kind to him in the day but spies on him nightly at midnight, slowly intruding into his room in the pitch black. Finally on the eighth night, a ray of light falls on the offending eye inflaming our protagonist and driving him to murder. He has so objectified his nemesis that he sees this act only as a triumph over the 'evil eye'. When the police come to investigate, he is so confident he brings them into the murdered man's room for the interview and seats himself directly above the floorboards beneath which the murdered man lies. All goes well until he begins to 'hear' a tap---is it his imagination, or is it the thud of the dead man's heart? The thud becomes a thump and then a bold tattoo---he becomes convinced the sound is audible to the police who are toying with him. Written by Brian Freeston

When Edgar sees his girlfriend Betty getting up close and personal with his best friend Carl, he murders Carl in a jealous rage and hides the corpse under the floor of his piano room. Comes the night, and Edgar begins to hear strange sounds coming from under the floor... Written by Peter W. Many, Jr. (PMSusana)

Based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe and the American Civil War stories of Ambrose Bierce, THE TELL-TALE HEART is set in the final days of the American Civil War and the time of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, THE TELL-TALE HEART tells the tale of Captain Winter (Mark Redfield), an Army officer obsessed with hunting down and capturing a mad killer who tortured and murdered his comrades during the conflict. The trail to catch the murderer leads to a boarding house on the outskirts of war-torn Richmond, Virginia, run by Mr. and Mrs. Clarion, played by Robert Quarry and Ingrid Pitt. There, Winter discovers that the madman is masquerading as the old couple's son and turning the boarding house into a den of horror. Written by Mark Redfield

Joe Marzano adapted Edgar Allan Poe's famed short story more than once. After The Tell-Tale Heart (1958), he returned to the pages of Poe 28 years later for this remake: As in Poe's original 1843 story, a murderer (Marzano) buries a body beneath the floor of his room and thinks the heartbeats of his victim can be heard while the police are investigating. After he confesses, the sound is revealed to be the ticking of the victim's watch. In 1989, Marzano shot new scenes to increase the running time of this 1986 interpretation. Written by Anonymous

As in Edgar Allan Poe's original 1843 short story, a murderer (Joe Marzano) buries a body beneath the floor of his room and thinks the heartbeats of his victim can be heard while the police are investigating. After he confesses, the sound is revealed to be the ticking of the victim's watch. Written by Anonymous

A stylish and faithful adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short story. Narrated in first-person by James Mason, the main character calmly tells the police of an unnatural revulsion with his landlord's "strange" eye that leads him to murder the landlord and hide his dismembered body under the floorboards of a rooming house. Written by Edward Summer

This avant-garde piece, adapted from the Edgar Allen Poe Classic short story centers around an indentured servants plot on the life of his master. The servant has repressed his memories of abuse by his master, but these memories are displaced onto the master's evil "vulture eye". Eventually, this results in a neurosis that fuels the slave to revenge and murder. This film was created with the artistic challenge of taking an established classic and changing its context while using the exact same text of the source material. To that end, we juxtaposed the exact wording of the classic tale against a montage of photographs that capture racial conflicts and atrocities occurring throughout American history to create an entirely new layer to the original story. Quite a challenge to make coherent, the film has gone through a series of re-edits before reaching this final version; not quite horror, not quite comedy, but definitely socio-political. The result is a unique perspective of the cycle of racial violence in America. Written by Lawville Solutions, LLC