Raven's Hollow gives Edgar Allan Poe the on-the-nose horror backstory that'll have you pleading 'nevermore.' DoNatoBomb's review:
is an ode to Edgar Allan Poe in the form of a supernatural—read: fictional—biography. Poe’s morbid prose, drenched in gallows moods and gothic depression, influence his pre-authorship origin as conceptualized by Hatton and co-writer Chuck Reeves. It’s a clever marriage of homage and originality as Poe’s pen-to-paper evils become monsters of colonial territories.is drenched in 1800s allure as cursed mythology overtakes eastern American realism.
We meet Poe as a West Point cadet on a routine training exercise in upstate New York. He and four other soldiers happen upon a mauled body fastened to a crossed rack device. In seeking the lost soul’s homestead for proper burial, Poe’s squad discovers the sparsely inhabited community of Raven’s Hollow. Elders Dr. Garrett and innkeeper Elizabet Ingram allow Poe’s party to stay the night with proper hospitality, but it’s not long before one of their visitors goes missing.
That said, it’s an odd character study to watch soldier boy “Edgar Poe” evolve into the quill-wielding “Edgar Allan Poe” around so much imminent terror. His monologues become more poetic as the intensity heightens, while Raven’s Hollow’s aviary overlord reveals its wretched backstory. Veteran genre presences like Dickie and Hayman chew scenery like rawhide, while the younger performers highlight their stage play tendencies to oversell or loudly emphasize.
What’s more disappointing is the horror. There are impalement deaths, transformations from human to spirit forms and scars that insinuate the raven’s merciless reign, but the camera feels unnatural capturing these moments. Outside the opening victim’s gutted stomach wound, there’s not much graveyard excitement. Hatton’s inky J-horror raven-maiden design fails in its noticeably computerized presentation, much like odd shots of soldiers hovering like they’re dangling on invisible wires.
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