The Pale Blue Eye2022
“Every heart tells a tale.”
Directed by Scott Cooper
🏆 1 win & 2 nominations total
The premise
West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate. While attempting to solve this grisly mystery, the reluctant detective engages the help of one of the cadets: a strange but brilliant young fellow by the name of Edgar Allan Poe.
Horror Vault's take
West Point, 1830: a cadet's mutilated corpse sets a weathered, reclusive detective on a trail that grows stranger and more sinister with every frozen stride. Seeking an edge, he enlists an eccentric young poet-cadet whose morbid imagination proves both gift and liability — a young man history will come to know as Edgar Allan Poe. The investigation pulls both men into a darkness that feels less like crime and more like something ancient and hungry. Christian Bale anchors this handsomely mounted gothic mystery with a performance as cold and quiet as a midwinter grave.
Content: Disturbing Imagery Involving Corpses, Ritualistic Mutilation, Themes Of Suicide, Dark Occult Content
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Cast
Christian Bale
Augustus Landor
Harry Melling
Edgar Allan Poe
Lucy Boynton
Lea Marquis
Toby Jones
Dr. Daniel Marquis
Simon McBurney
Captain Hitchcock
Timothy Spall
Superintendent Thayer
Robert Duvall
Jean-Pepe
Harry Lawtey
Artemus Marquis
Gillian Anderson
Julia Marquis
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Patsy
Hadley Robinson
Mattie
Fred Hechinger
Cadet Randolph Ballinger
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