International trailer THE RAVEN Starring John Cusack and Luke Evans

by Matt Goldberg Posted:December 1st, 2011 at 10:54 am

An international trailer for the period crime-thriller The Raven has gone online. The story follows a Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) who teams up with Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack) to solve a string of serial killings based on Poe’s stories. It’s amazing how much a trailer can give away in the short span of one minute and fourteen seconds. I’m afraid I won’t be able to go into the film and be surprised at how each Poe story is tied to a separate killing. I’m also dismayed that the trailer is trying to sell Poe as an action-hero, which makes the movie look ridiculous rather than a gothic murder mystery. This is all the fault of the trailer and I’m hoping that the film turned out alright. At least the movie features this great line: “We are in dire need of your unwholesome expertise.” Then again, it also has Poe screaming, “I’ll send you to hell!”
Hit the jump to check out the international trailer. The Raven opens March 9, 2012.


Click here to see the great trailer for THE RAVEN



Here’s the official synopsis for The Raven:

In this gritty thriller, Edgar Allan Poe (John Cusack, Being John Malkovich) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans, Immortals) to hunt down a mad serial killer who’s using Poe’s own works as the basis in a string of brutal murders. Directed by James McTeigue (V for Vendetta,Ninja Assassin), the film also stars Alice Eve (Sex and the City 2), Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges) and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Faster).When a mother and daughter are found brutally murdered in 19th century Baltimore, Detective Emmett Fields (Luke Evans) makes a startling discovery: the crime resembles a fictional murder described in gory detail in the local newspaper—part of a collection of stories penned by struggling writer and social pariah Edgar Allan Poe. But even as Poe is questioned by police, another grisly murder occurs, also inspired by a popular Poe story.
Realizing a serial killer is on the loose using Poe’s writings as the backdrop for his bloody rampage, Fields enlists the author’s help in stopping the attacks. But when it appears someone close to Poe may become the murderer’s next victim, the stakes become even higher and the inventor of the detective story calls on his own powers of deduction to try to solve the case before it’s too late.

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