"The Tell-Tale Heart" is one of the weaker RMT Poe adaptations, but it's still wonderfully creative and enjoyable. I think the basic problem here is that this script would have worked better without any reference to the Poe story at all; it really isn't needed--feels tossed-in, really, with those occasional references to the clock etc.--and without it, the script might have come to a more logical and satisfying conclusion. But then again, the whole story is pretty illogical. In Poe's original, the narrator is quite mad right from the start, and obsessed with the old man and his "vulture eye." In the adaptation we have a man who is perfectly rational, yet seems to crumble with unbelievable ease. It's never clear why he is so incredibly passive, even in the face of his daughter's death (which itself isn't terribly believable). And surely everybody knows that you can't just plant human corpses in a field, like trees! This is clearly not very well thought-out in script terms. Still, a lot of good menacing atmosphere, and a terrific, if one-dimensional, villain. 