The Raven (1935)

Directed by

Lew Landers

Genre

horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 01m

Rated

M/14

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 155 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A surgeon obsessed with Edgar Allan Poe traps a fugitive and forces him to do his bidding. The surgeon has a hidden torture chamber in his basement where he enacts Poe-inspired cruelties.

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What happens

The Raven is a 1935 American horror film directed by Louis Friedlander (who started to be credited as Lew Landers the following year) and starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. Billed as having been "suggested by" Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 poem of the same title, excerpts of which are quoted at a few points in the film, it was adapted from an original screenplay by David Boehm. Lugosi stars as a neurosurgeon obsessed with Poe who has a torture chamber in his basement, and Karloff plays an escaped murderer on the run from the police whom Lugosi manipulates into doing his dirty work. Three decades later, Karloff appeared in another film with the same title, Roger Corman's comedy gothic horror The Raven (1963), with Vincent Price and Peter Lorre. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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