A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
Production
Grimy 1840s Baltimore streets, all fog and gaslight
Acting
Cusack's unhinged Poe—part genius, part mess
Practical Effects
That pendulum scene, practical effects still squirm-worthy
Director
James McTeigue
John Cusack
Edgar Allan Poe
Luke Evans
Detective Fields
Alice Eve
Emily Hamilton
Brendan Gleeson
Colonel Hamilton
Kevin McNally
Maddux
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
John Cantrell
Jimmy Yuill
Captain Eldridge
Pam Ferris
Mrs. Bradley
Brendan Coyle
Reagan
Sam Hazeldine
Ivan
Adrian Rawlins
Doc Clements
Dave Legeno
Percy
Michael Cronin
Old Gentleman
Michael Poole
Professor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Cusack reportedly stayed in character's miserable mindset throughout, which explains the exhaustion in his eyes.
Poe actually died mysteriously in Baltimore in 1849; this film's fictional killer explains nothing while exploiting everything.
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