![]() Netflix will debut The Pale Blue Eye in select US theaters first on December 23rd, 2022 this fall, then streaming on Netflix starting January 6th, 2023 just after the New Year. Produced by Scott Cooper, Christian Bale, Tyler Thompson, John Lesher. Based on the novel of the same name by Louis Bayard. The Pale Blue Eye is both written and directed by American filmmaker Scott Cooper, director of the films Crazy Heart, Out of the Furnace, Black Mass, Hostiles, and Antlers previously. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, Landor enlists the help of one of their own to pursue the case, an eccentric cadet with a disdain for the rigors of the military and a penchant for poetry-a young man by the name of Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling). Fearing irreparable damage to the fledgling military academy, its leaders turn to a local detective, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale), to solve the murder. But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy becomes savagery when it’s discovered that the young man’s heart has been skillfully removed. ![]() In the early hours of a gray winter morning, a cadet is found dead. You can rewatch the teaser trailer for Cooper's The Pale Blue Eye right here, to view the first look again. Here's the official trailer (+ posters) for Scott Cooper's The Pale Blue Eye, direct from Netflix's YouTube: It's looking like this film might be pretty good after all. Inspired by the unfinished story from the original master of horror, Edgar Allan Poe, Lighthouse Keeper is an old-fashioned gothic tale with an emphasis on atmosphere, story, and macabre. This is a damn fine trailer, it reminds me of Christopher Nolan's Insomnia, with all the confusion of the investigation. ![]() Poe with either meningitis, syphilis, cholera, rabies, murder or possibly all of the above because. ![]() The film stars Christian Bale as Landor and Harry Melling as Poe, with Gillian Anderson, Lucy Boynton, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey, Simon McBurney, Hadley Robinson, Timothy Spall, Brennan Cook, plus Charlie Tahan, and Robert Duvall. In 1849, the mean streets of Baltimore took down E. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case - a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe. A world-weary detective is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. (Along with Raven's Hollow on Shudder.) It opens first in theaters later in December before playing on Netflix in January. Alas, the script fumbles the ball after this point and doesn’t quite follow through or explain all of its ideas."I believe the dead haunt us because we love them too little." Netflix has unveiled the full official trailer for The Pale Blue Eye, the second Edgar Allen Poe film this year about when he was at West Point. Lesperance does get a mild degree of atmosphere in in some of the scenes with the ghost girl appearing in the background of shots, a chair rocking all on its own or Chelsea Gilligan’s being massaged under her bedshirt while she sleeps despite nobody else being there.Ĭertainly, the sleep apnoea twist that comes in mid-film takes everything in an unexpected directions. The central premise of the old man afraid to go outdoors is a novel one the addition of a couple of parapsychologists who have been secretly stationed next door without his knowledge is a somewhat more incredible twist to buy. Inspired by Edgar Allan Poes fragment 'The Light-House,' it follows two lighthouse keepers, one old and one young, struggling to maintain their sanity while being stuck together on a remote island because of the raging storm. The sheer volume of numbers has caused them to slip into tired formula where you start to feel that almost all of the moves and directorial jumps are played out and each successive entry is just repeating the same thing ad nauseum.įor the most part, Norman Lesperanace seems to be doing exactly the same thing as all these others. They are produced by the truckload for the dvd and cable market. I have seen a large number of haunted house and ghost stories in the last few years. The film was retitled Door to the Other Side and has been more widely known under that name. Lesperance’s only credit before this was as co-director of Future Murder (2000), which has the distinction of being the first film of Andre øvredal of The Troll Hunter (2010) fame. Reclusion was a solo directorial debut for Norman Lesperance.
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