The Raven (2012 film)

The Raven is a 2012 American mystery thriller film directed by James McTeigue and based on a screenplay by Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare. It stars John Cusack, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson and Luke Evans. It was released in Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom on March 9, 2012 and in the United States on April 27, 2012.

In 19thcentury Baltimore, Maryland, several policemen discover a murdered woman sprawled on the floor of her apartment, which was locked from the inside. While police search for the killers means of escape, they discover a second corpse in the chimney, later identified as the 12yearold daughter of the first victim. A celebrated detective, Emmett Fields Luke Evans, is called to assist in the investigation and discovers that the crime resembles a fictional murder in the short story The Murders in the Rue Morgue that he had once read.The writer Edgar Allan Poe John Cusack is brought to Fields for questioning. After finding the body of Griswold, a rival critic John Warnaby of Poes, cut in half with a pendulum as in Poes story The Pit and the Pendulum, the pair deduce that someone is copying Poes stories. Edgars love, Emily Hamilton Alice Eve, is kidnapped at a masquerade ball her father Brendan Gleeson is hosting, like the one described in Poes The Masque of the Red Death. The killer taunts Poe in a note, demanding that Edgar write and publish a new story. Poes lodgings are burned down by people who believe he is exploiting the murders for his own journalistic ends, and he is forced to move in with Fields. ........

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