Raven’s Hollow is an origin story, an alternate take, of Edgar Allen Pope, starting during his time as an army cadet. Right off the bat, Poe and his company find a man hoisted up and nearly dead almost as if to be undergoing a punishment of some kind. Poe gets close and the man whispers the word Raven to him. What could it mean??
Well, Poe’s a good cadet and he’s not leaving the man behind, he’s gonna give him a proper burial, so they take the man to the nearest town and I’ll be damned if it isn’t Named “Raven’s Hollow”. We can’t assume there’s anything nefarious going on. The may could have been telling Ed where he was from. Right? Well, the people in town don’t want him there either, or at least they act like they don’t.
All Isn’t What it Seems in Raven’s Hollow
The investigation ensues in the little village of Raven’s Hollow. Ed and company are staying in town at a hotel run by a mother and daughter, the daughter being Charlotte. You can just tell there’s something about Charlotte. The whole regiment, including the dryer than a sandworm’s asshole, Ed Poe. But nobody’s going to Poundtown that night. One of the other cadet’s gets his enchilada ate by some winged creature. A foul fowl if you will.
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Nobody knows about this winged creature except you and me, so that means there are TWO murders to investigate now. And they’re blaming both of on the stable worker because of course you are. Classism at its finest. The man’s name is Usher and Usher tells them they gotta go, but does anybody listen? No. Does anybody believe him? No. When another cadet gets yeeted off his horse, Ed Poe believes him then.
What is Raven’s Hollow?
I couldn’t really tell what the director was going for. Is Raven’s Hollow a creature feature or smart “elevated” horror.
Environmentally, Raven’s Hollow is bleak, dark, damp, foggy, everything you’d expect. But the film misses and I think it misses on dialogue. Listen, I get it, you make a Poe film and you wanna sneak Poe works into the script. It just came off forced to me. Because the monster scenes are fun. I could have used a few more flying feathers, like Randy Johnson hitting him with a fastball, but nothing doing.
This film ties things up real nice at the end and it all goes back to the man the cadets found at the beginning. Maybe the towns people had been playing dumb. Maybe they knew all along about that winged spawn of Satan. The giant buzzard is gonna cockblock Poe too. And by the conclusion, Poe has his motivation to scribble down that dark piece of gothic drivel that those intellectuals love so much, The Raven. Fiction is no match for reality, in this case. This one gets a 2 out of 5 Slashes from me. I’ll never tell anyone not to waste their time or money seeing a film. It’s subjective. Take what I give you and form your own opinions. I hope I haven’t spoiled too much.
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