Edgar Allan Poe gets the big-screen treatment in "The Raven," out April 27. In the film, set in the last days of Poe's life, Poe (John Cusack) joins forces with a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) to hunt down a mad serial killer who's using Poe's own works as the basis for a string of brutal murders. James McTeigue ("V for Vendetta") directs. The film, which wa shot largely in Serbia and Hungary, also stars Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson and Oliver Jackson-Cohen.

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