Edgar Allan Poe's The Oval Portrait is endearing. Which may be an indictment, considering it is intended as a gothic horror of the Rebecca variety, but the vibes are lovely. The environment is cozy.

Writer/director Adrian Langley is pivoting from the cannibals of the Butchers trilogy to the world of gothic horror in his new film, The Oval Portrait, based on Edgar Allan Poe’s 1842 short story of ...