I'm a pretty big fan of Poe. Casque of the Amantillado, The Masque of the Red Death, The Tell Tale Heart, and of course The Raven are classics. A few days ago I heard that a new movie called The Raven is coming out in March. I was really excited. I was going to link the trailer here, but its a bit gory, so I'll just leave it to your imagination.
John Cusack will be playing Edgar Allan Poe in this movie which retells one of the most amazing parts of Poe's life. A lot of Poe's poems and stories are dark and involve murders and deaths that range from a plague spreading in a ballroom to a man being buried alive behind a brick wall. The movie focuses on a series of murders that occured in the 1800's. These murders were exact copies of the ones that Poe wrote about. This led the police to at first suspect Poe, but eventually Poe had to join forces to help the police catch this copycat killer.
