If there is one Edgar Allen Poe story that I think every American child encounters sometime during their journey through school, it must be “The Tell-Tale Heart”. It’s my favorite of the Poe tales, short and very much to the point.

On the latest episode of the Scriptnotes podcast, John August interviews Robert Eggers, the director of the recent Nosferatu movie. But long before he made that film, he made a short film of the Poe classic, which I’ve embedded below. It’s a weird but interesting take on the Poe classic, with no dialogue during the first 15 minutes of its 21 minute duration.

Listen to The One vvith Robert Eggers:

Hearken well! John sitteth in discourse with the learned Robert Eggers, weaver of dreadsome visions (The Witch, The Lighthouse), whose latest labour bringeth forth Nosferatu from the mistes of antiquity. Together, they dost unravel the craft of breathing newe life into the ghastly count of olde, how Robert didst hone his vision through toil and cunning in his firste labours, and the summoning of terror moste unholy upon the silver’d screen.