jacobjohntaylor1 This is one of the scariest movies ever. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It is a very good horror movie. It is better then A Nightmare on elm street. It is better then Friday the 13th part V a new beginning . It also a lot better then Halloween resurrection. It is a very scary movie.

keremyukseloglu And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floorShall be lifted—nevermore!

wangxiaoxiaotina 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.

Coventry Of course I can't be entirely sure, since unfortunately I have never written a screenplay myself, but I really think that one of the most difficult screenplays to write is that of a deliberately fictional story about real (historical) protagonists. You can't make it too stern or sober, otherwise it's becoming more of a biography, but on the other hand you certainly also can't make it too extravagant or far- fetched, or else you'll risk that the fans of the pivot characters will be offended. I can't think of too many other titles at the moment, apart from "Agatha" (Agatha Christie), "Bubba Ho-Tep" (Elvis Presley) and this "The Raven". Director James McTeigue undertook an admirable, but only semi-successful, effort to fictionalize the final days of the legendary horror author/poet Edgar Allan Poe. The circumstances of Poe's death, at the relatively young age of forty years old, have always been considered vague and mysterious as he was found on a bench in the park whilst heavily confused and delusional. By now, modern medicine has become accurate enough to assume that Poe most likely died from a brain tumor, but I can imagine that in the year 1849 the doctors' diagnosis was either poisoning or opium overdose. The mystery and legend surrounding Poe's death forms the starting point of "The Raven". We are introduced to our protagonist – adequate but boringly depicted by John Cusack – when he's in a miserable state… It's been a long time since Poe released a successful piece of writing and works on a sort of freelance basis for a crummy newspaper, he struggles with alcohol and drug addictions and the father of his beloved muse Emily literally hates his guts. Just when things can't seem to get any worse, Poe is apprehended for murder by the ambitious Baltimore detective Fields. A mother and her young daughter were gruesomely murdered exactly as described in one of Poe's horror stories, which naturally makes him the prime suspect. Luckily, for our writer at least, another vicious Poe-inspired murder takes place whilst he's being interrogated. Detective Fields and Poe agree to work together in order to stop the killer, and via correspondence in the newspaper they challenge him/her to a cat-and-mouse game. Intriguing and compelling plot, for sure, but horror fanatics immediately recognize it as a total rip-off of Dario Argento's "Tenebre". Genre addicts, myself included, will always prefer Argento's version, but admittedly it's a nice touch to replace the fictional author from "Tenebre" with the historical horror pioneer Edgar Allan Poe. The first couple of murders are also promising, most notably the massacre with the giant pendulum, but then "The Raven" quickly turns into a largely dull, talkative and uninspired secondhand thriller. The whole subplot with Poe's girlfriend being kept buried alive somewhere by the killer is implausible, the references towards Poe's phenomenal work decrease as the plot unfolds itself further. As the search for the killer carries on and becomes less and less interesting, director McTeigue sadly also reverts to dreadful clichés. You know, like the death of the loyal deputy or sinister figures emerging from the fog-enshrouded streets like in cheap Jack the Ripper movies, etc. John Cusack is a terrific actor, but he lacks the natural darkness to properly portray a flamboyant individual like Edgar Allen Poe. I actually don't think that any A-listed nowadays actor is capable of depicting Poe, including Ewan McGregor or Robert Downey Jr. who apparently also stood on the short list. In fact, bleakness and despair is what's missing most in this movie overall. If you're going to make a movie about the oeuvre of the pioneer of macabre tales, please make sure it's as dark and depressing as the oeuvre itself.