THE RAVEN Trailer HD

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Synopsis
In this gritty thriller, Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack, Being John Malkovich) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans, Immortals) to hunt down a mad serial killer who's using Poe's own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders. Directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta, Ninja Assassin), the film also stars Alice Eve (Sex and the City 2), Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges) and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Faster). When a mother and daughter are found brutally murdered in 19th century Baltimore, Detective Emmett Fields (Luke Evans) makes a startling discovery: the crime resembles a fictional murder described in gory detail in the local newspaper--part of a collection of stories penned by struggling writer and social pariah Edgar Allan Poe. But even as Poe is questioned by police, another grisly murder occurs, also inspired by a popular Poe story. Realizing a serial killer is on the loose using Poe's writings as the backdrop for his bloody rampage, Fields enlists the author's help in stopping the attacks. But when it appears someone close to Poe may become the murderer's next victim, the stakes become even higher and the inventor of the detective story calls on his own powers of deduction to try to solve the case before it's too late.
Director: James McTeigue
Cast: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Writers: Ben Livingston, Hannah Shakespeare

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  Film & Animation

[Ingibjorg97]

that is so raven

[cha5]

Really sad that these movies with Poe's name on them will always make more money than poor Edgar Allan ever saw in his entire lifetime of writing stories and poems which earned him hardly a pittance and barely enough for a funeral when he died.

[Bluecoat911]

Well, okay

[EdgarAIIanPoe]

No.

[Zylon Tex]

Thanks for this

[holyhandgrenade3]

It's annoying that Poe did not speak with a Southern Accent considering he was raised in Richmond, Virginia. It's like seeing Mark Twain speaking with a John F. Kennedy voice.

[holyhandgrenade3]

Well, Poe as a detective makes a lot more sense than Lincoln as a vampire hunter considering Murders on Rue Morgue basically started the whole detective genre. The Emancipation proclamation did not start the Vampire craze.

[Zylon Tex]

Well there are those who are wise enough to appreciate him and those who don't

[cha5]

Cont

Calling him "a man whose passing few would be grieved by" among other things.

R.I..P Edgar Allan Poe. F.U. Rufus Griswold.

[cha5]

Poe? Well he's been kinda dead for the longest time now.

Although I think he'd be doing a 180% rotation in his coffin to some things with his name stamped on them like David De Coteau's soft core porn film "adaptations" of his works among numerous other cinematic atrocities out there.

For me it's just something of a sad irony that Poe earned just about nothing from his works and that his own literary agent (Rufus Griswold) tried to destroy Poe's reputation at his funeral in a eulogy.

[Zylon Tex]

I got a feeling he'll be just fine