This one got promoted to me because I'm a huge Edgar Allan Poe fanatic, and yes, the story is loosely based on the immortal "The Tell-Tale Heart". VERY loosely based, that is. In Poe's short story, a murderer's guilty conscious causes him to hear his victim's beating hard through the wooden floor where he hid the body. In Michael Cuesta's "Tell-Tale", a donor heart manipulates its new owner to hunt down the people who killed the original owner and his wife. That's quite different, and one could easily also state the plot bears also resemblance to - say - Maurice Renard's "The Hands of Orlac".
That said, "Tell-Tale" is interesting enough to watch without linking it to Poe or any other classic novelist. The plot is far-fetched and implausible, but if you manage to look beyond that, it's a compelling thriller with sufficient action, suspense, and a handful of genuinely macabre and grueling horror moments. Any movie featuring clandestine organ trafficking, a grumpy Brian Cox, and random people getting pushed in front of trains must be worth a peek, no?
That said, "Tell-Tale" is interesting enough to watch without linking it to Poe or any other classic novelist. The plot is far-fetched and implausible, but if you manage to look beyond that, it's a compelling thriller with sufficient action, suspense, and a handful of genuinely macabre and grueling horror moments. Any movie featuring clandestine organ trafficking, a grumpy Brian Cox, and random people getting pushed in front of trains must be worth a peek, no?