I just happened to find this movie in the program listings yesterday. Movies based on Edgar Allan Poe can be a bit hit or miss but I like quite a few of his works so I decided to give this one a try. I have to say that it is surprisingly good. The Victorian era setting together with the rather dark plot and atmosphere makes for a very enjoyable old times thriller. The movie is based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe but not in the usual way that one would think when one says based on. Instead the story in this movie is a new story spun around Edgar Allan Poe as a person where his work is used by... read the rest.
The Raven
(2012)
Overview
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
Tagline
The only one who can stop a serial killer is the man who inspired him.
Crew
Director: | James McTeigue |
Writers: | Hannah Shakespeare, Ben Livingston |
Cast
John Cusack
Luke Evans
Alice Eve
Brendan Gleeson |