The Raven (2012)

Name: The Raven
Genre: Crime
Duration: 103 min
Cast: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McNally

The Raven

Crime

Mystery

Thriller

Release Date: March 9, 2012
Director: James McTeigue
Cast: John Cusack , Luke Evans , Alice Eve , Brendan Gleeson , Kevin McNally , Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Runtime: 103
Main Genre: Crime
Writers: Ben Livingston , Hannah Shakespeare
Tagline: The only one who can stop a serial killer is the man who inspired him.
Website: http://www.theravenmovie.com

Summary

The macabre and lurid tales of Edgar Allan Poe are vividly brought to life - and death – in this stylish, gothic thriller starring John Cusack as the infamous author. When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Poe’s darkest works, a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) joins forces with Poe in a quest to get inside the killer’s mind in order to stop him from making every one of Poe’s brutal stories a blood chilling reality. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, which escalates when Poe’s love (Alice Eve, She’s Out of My League) becomes the next target. Intrepid Pictures’ The Raven also stars 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.