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This movie is set in the mid 1800s and involves poet . A serial killer is on the loose and murdering people using Poes descriptions from his published stories and poems. Poe teams up with Detective Fields, a Baltimore policeman to try and catch the killer by using his knowledge of the descriptions. Even though the stories are fictional, they start to become reality and the killer is a step ahead of them. Then it takes on a personal note as Poes lover becomes a target. Will they stop the killer in time?
In 1848, in Baltimore, is a penniless writer with drinking problem, who writes reviews in the Baltimore Patriot newspaper. Emily Hamilton and he are in love but her father Captain Charles Hamilton despises him. When a mother and her twelve year-old daughter are mysteriously murdered in a locked room, the efficient Detective Emmett Fields finds a hidden spring in a window nailed shut that opens the window and he recalls an Allen Poe story. Then the writer Griswold that has criticized the stories of Poe is murdered in the same way of another gory story. They find a scarlet mask in Griswold and Poe recalls another tale about another murder in a ball. Fields believes that the killer has inspired in Edgar Aleen Poes tales to commit his crimes and that Emily is in danger. Captain Hamilton does not call off the party and the criminal creates a diversion to kidnap Emily. Now Poe must participate in a game following the killers instruction.
John Cusack
Edgar Allan Poe
Alice Eve
Emily Hamilton
Luke Evans
Detective Fields
Brendan Gleeson
Capt. Charles Hamilton
Kevin McNally
Maddux
Oliver Jackson-Cohen
John Cantrell
Jimmy Yuill
Captain Eldridge
Sam Hazeldine
Ivan
Pam Ferris
Mrs. Bradley
Brendan Coyle
Reagan
Adrian Rawlins
Doc Clements
Aidan Feore
Stage Manager
Dave Legeno
Percy
Michael Cronin
Old Gentleman
Michael Poole
Professor
Michael Shannon
Dr. Morgan
Charity Wakefield
Field's Maid
John Warnaby
Griswold
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