Packet 6: Tossup 15

Multiple exposures are featured throughout an adaptation of this work whose most enduring shot depicts the flowing wedding veil of a woman played by Abel Gance’s (“gonss’s”) wife Marguerite. Luis Buñuel (“boon-yoo-EL”) shot (-5[1])Un Chien Andalou (“un shee-AWN on-dah-LOO”) after quitting as assistant director for that 1928 adaptation of this work by Jean Epstein. (15[1])The (15[1])climax of a 1960 film based on this work shot in 15 (15[1])days for AIP cuts between a close-up on a woman’s eyes and bizarre (-5[1])portraits lit by lightning. In its director’s usual fashion, footage of the burning sequence that ends that film based on this (*) story was reused in some (10[2])of his later films. Richard Matheson adapted this story for the first film in a horror series including The Pit and the Pendulum and The (10[1])Masque (10[1])of the Red Death. (10[1])For 10 points, name (10[1])this story (10[1])that inspired (10[1])the first (10[1])of Roger Corman’s eight Poe (-5[1])adaptations, which stars Vincent Price as Roderick. ■END■ (10[5]0[1])

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