HorroRated archive entry
The Pale Blue Eye
HorroRated verdict
- Directed by
- Scott Cooper
- Written by
- Scott Cooper, Louis Bayard
- Produced by
- Ryan Donnell Smith, Tracey Landon, Dylan Weathered, Buddy Patrick, Vincent Grashaw, Chris Sharp, Christian Bale, Scott Cooper, John Lesher, Tyler Thompson
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Why it’s HorroRated
The Pale Blue Eye uses its period gothic setting and the Poe conceit with enough confidence to generate real atmosphere. Christian Bale is reliable and Harry Melling's Poe is the film's most interesting element, suggesting the man who'll write the darkness he's witnessed here. A slow film with a solid payoff.
Synopsis
Scott Cooper's gothic mystery uses Poe as a figure whose relationship to the darkness he writes about becomes the film's central question. Harry Melling's Poe is the film's most distinctive element in a cast that includes Christian Bale. A slow film with a solid payoff.
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Quick facts
- Release date
- December 22, 2022
- Runtime
- 2 hours 8 mins
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English, French, Latin
- Content rating
- R
- Entry type
- Movie
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