Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

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.

A girl is buried alive and a man's body is cut into halves. These are just some things that happen in the crime drama The Raven, based on Edgar Allan Poe's poems.Last week we got to watch The Raven during class on a big screen which was very intriguing. The plot was about Edgar Allan Poe, who was portrayed by John Cusack. He got stuck in a crime drama where someone had become so inspired by his works that he murdered people the same way as in Poe's poems. Telltale Heart, Cask of Amontillado and Annabel Lee are just some of the Poems that appear in the movie.The director had adapted the movie in a way that catches the audience's interest. It was easy to follow the plot, though his poems can be hard to understand sometimes. The movie was flawed sometimes, I would have liked to see more details from the poems that the director had left out. Because of that, I will rate this movie a 6 out of 10.

This film tells the re-imagined story of the final few days of the famous poet Edgar Allen Poe, who is unwillingly involved in the hunt for a cruel serial killer in Baltimore.The story of "The Raven" is very dark and gruesome. The deaths depicted in the film are imaginative but very bloody. There were some deaths that looked to terrible that I wish I did not have to see. There is much suspense as the identity of the killer remains mysterious until the last moments in the film. Luke Evans shines as the persistent inspector who does not overlook any clues. He is charismatic, confident and convincing in his role. Overall, it is a good horror mystery.