I love this movie so much

Very well executed

Really Surprised!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

The film is a mystery featuring Edgar Allen Poe. When somebody out there commits crimes like in his writing, he helps to stop a serial killer who kidnaps his beloved Emily. The story is quite interesting at times. I felt the darkness and sickness of the criminal's crimes to be depraved. The depraved serial killer uses Poe's writing to commit crimes to attract his attention. The film is shot with darkness and with a period feeling in early eighteenth century Baltimore, Maryland.

With so many actors from the British Isles, you can guess that some European city is passing itself off for 19th century Baltimore.Horror writer Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack) has returned to Baltimore, down on his heel, needing a drink and a newspaper editor willing to publish his work. His best writing days are behind and no one wants to know him, in fact most do not know who he is.Pretty soon a killer inspired by Poe's writings is slaughtering people. in all sorts of nasty ways. Smart Baltimore police Inspector Fields (Luke Evans) first suspects Poe but then enlists him for his help as he needs Poe's knowledge of his own works to find the killer. Time is running out as Poe's girlfriend has been kidnapped.The film is a police procedural mixed with campy horror. Cusack's take on Poe feels all wrong. However you go to applaud a film that takes the writer Poe and puts him in his own ridiculous horror tale.

The "Pit and the Pendulum" scene was particularly gruesome. My favorite Poe story. I've also seen the movie versions; one with Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, the one with Vincent Price and the one with Lance Henrickson. In all three, plus the actual story, the victim escapes or is rescued. This is the first version I've seen where the victim dies. That was actually a real device that was used by the Spanish Inquisition.

The Raven is a unique mysterious horror film related to a poet Edgar Allan Poe, whose work inspired a serial killer. As a result of that, Poe was involved in and when the killer kidnapped Poe's girlfriend Emily, he and the detective Fields tried their best to find out the killer and stop more of his works to become fact.I like the dark mysterious 19th time setting, but I don't like the ending. It's overacting when Poe sitting on a park bench. And I don't know the reason that the killer wanted to kill Poe. I think if the director put more scenes on the killer, the movie would be more interesting and more reasonable.Poe's player did quite a good job if we ignore the last scene that Poe died of the poison. But I think it is the fault of the screenwriter but not him. I think Poe is a genius horror writer and I love the Tell-Tale Heart very much! I will give this movie a score of 7.