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Short Take: Deserves consideration beyond a first impression, but probably wont prove memorable

Director: James McTeigue

Screenwriters: Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare

Cast: John Cusack, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Kevin McNally

Length: 1h 51m

Synopsis: The year is 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland. A mysterious madman has begun killing people in the same fashions as those which are described in the various works of famed writer Edgar Allan Poe (Cusack), who has been recruited by a Detective Fields (Evans) to help with the investigation. Already pressured by the pace at which the killer is creating new victims, Poe and the police are distressed even further when a young aristocrat named Emily (Eve), who is Poe’s secret fiancée, finds herself abducted by the fanatical maniac. The psycho then challenges Poe and the police to follow the clues he leaves at each new crime and find Emily before it’s too late. Along the chase Poe must deal with confronting the realizations of his grisly stories, and doing so only adds to the toll of having to face the possibility of losing yet another woman he loves.

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