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The Tale Circuit

2025 · Horror · 1 min 19 sec

Aashim Kadayikkal revisits Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart through a brief generative-film interpretation. The adaptation translates the source story’s unsettling psychological territory into a compact work of synthetic images and voices.

Creator
Aashim Kadayikkal
Release date
March 16, 2025
Runtime
1 min 19 sec
Genre
Horror
Genre context
Editorial horror grouping based on the creator’s explicit adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart; no additional plot details are invented.
Viewing source
Aashim Kadayikkal on Vimeo ↗
Format
AI-generated / AI-assisted film
AI production
The filmmaker documents video generation with Kling, Runway, and ComfyUI; Flux-generated scenes; a script co-written with ChatGPT; and ElevenLabs voices refined in Audition. Blender style frames, Photoshop consistency work, After Effects compositing, and Premiere Pro editing and grading form the human production pipeline.

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