Spirits of the Dead

Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: Toby Dammit features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. Metzengerstein features a Mediveal countess who has a love-hate relationship with a black stallion – who it turns out is really her dead lover. William Wilson tells the story of a sadistic Austrian student with an exact double whom he later kills.