From 1408 and 2012, John Cusack returns to the big screen as the infamous author named Edgar Allan Poe in the horror film entitled The Raven. The thriller film directed by James McTeigue and based on a screenplay by Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare. It will be exclusively shown in Ayala Malls Cinemas (Glorietta 4, Greenbelt 3 and Trinoma) very soon.
The Raven shows a fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe’s life, in which the poet and author pursues a serial killer whose murders mirror those in Poe’s stories. Also starring Alice Eve and Luke Evans, it will give way for movie goers to appreciate some of the works of Poe and with a twist where a serial killer animates his works as a tool and process to deliver his victims to their death. One of the crime committed using his work was the murder of a mother and daughter that was set in 9th century in Baltimore and Detective Emmett Fields (Evans) his handling the case. And other crimes happen until Fields discovered the connection to the works of Poe and works with him to trace and to track down the killer in Baltimore.
I am a huge fan of Edgar Allan Poe’s works including the poem where the title of the film was based, there’s also The Cask of Amontillado where it gives a breath taking climax just like the The Masque of the Red Death.
The Raven also stars Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Brendan Gleeson, and Kevin McNally.
