The Pale Blue Eye’s New Trailer Teases a Haunting Wintertime Mystery

The Pale Blue Eye is an adaption of a novel by Louis Bayard that imagines a chilling horror story set in West Point throughout the time that Edgar Allen Poe was in attendance. The early 1800s time interval locations the movie properly earlier than Sherlock Holmes, providing a darker, extra reserved form of horror, creating a wierd, slow-moving, threatening aura that I’m, really, all about.

The trailer reveals Christian Bale as detective Augustus Landor, who known as in by West Point to analyze a grisly homicide. While the cadets show that their comraderie to one another is bigger than their worry of being the following sufferer, Landor identifies a younger cadet—Edgar Allen Poe (performed by Harry Melling)—as a potential ally within the manhunt. This is a good premise, in my view, as a result of Poe is credited as actually inventing the trendy detective story. His “tales of ratiocination” shortly took on a lifetime of their very own, creating a singular and well-liked new style inside many years.

I’m actually the audience for one thing like this, as I attended each the college that Poe famously dropped out of and I’m presently dwelling within the relative space of the Hudson Valley the place this movie was shot, which has the unsettling impact of feeling as if I might step exterior and see the mysterious killer behind each tree throughout a hike.

The Pale Blue Eye will likely be accessible on Netflix and in choose theaters on January 6.

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