Okay, this wasn't "Abe Lincoln Vampire Hunter" awful.
It's a period piece movie with a famous historical figure in it. This was actually sort of plausible. Someone is killing people using methods found in the works of Edgar Allen Poe, who is down on his luck at that point in his career. A clever young detective figures it out and enlists Poe to find the killer.
Meanwhile, the killer kidnaps Poe's fiancé, and this becomes the typical race against time plot.
The ending is predictable. I figured it out about ten minutes before the characters did.
Still, the movie looks great, there are great homages to Poe's stories (and I was familiar with more of them than I thought I was) and for the most part the story kind of works. The period costumes are pretty good as well.
It's a period piece movie with a famous historical figure in it. This was actually sort of plausible. Someone is killing people using methods found in the works of Edgar Allen Poe, who is down on his luck at that point in his career. A clever young detective figures it out and enlists Poe to find the killer.
Meanwhile, the killer kidnaps Poe's fiancé, and this becomes the typical race against time plot.
The ending is predictable. I figured it out about ten minutes before the characters did.
Still, the movie looks great, there are great homages to Poe's stories (and I was familiar with more of them than I thought I was) and for the most part the story kind of works. The period costumes are pretty good as well.