Reader Response: The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart is about a man who is actually crazy, but denies it throughout the whole story. He then goes on to stalk, kill, and dismember an old man and he puts different part of the body in separate floorboards.
It starts out with the man describing how being nervous is a disease that has heightened his senses, making the most significant impact in his hearing. He then describes how his nervousness sent him on a quest to kill an old man. The crazy guy believes that the old man has an "evil-eye" and he is always being watched. Again, he describes himself as not being crazy. One day, he was watching the old man sleep, but he woke up, believing that he heard a noise. The crazy guy stood there and watched the old man for the next three or four hours, until he could not take it anymore and killed the old man. He then proceeded to dismember the body and hide the pieces. The police came and investigated for hours until he finally snapped and told them where the parts were, claiming that he could not take the sound of the beating heart from the old man.
The main character of the story is obviously a very disturbed and sick person. He also seems to be in denial about his psychiatric problems. Although the physical description of this character was never given, it is not hard to imagine a crazy-eyed maniac looking through a door at a sleeping old man. The emotional description that was given labeled his hearing sense as "super". He says that his uncontrollable paranoia has given his gifts of exceptional senses.
If I could make a movie of the Tell-Tale Heart, I would definitely include the crazy guy from The Shining. I'm sure that everyone remembers the axe scene and the famous,"Heeeres Johny!"He would just be the perfect person to play that part because he has already done a scene where he's looking through a door with a demented smile on his face. I think that the other people could be played by anyone as long as they fit the part. The old guy must be an old actor, and the interrogators could be anyone. I would not change much from the short-story, but I would include a much better history of the main character and I would also include WHY he was stalking the old man.