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The Raven (2012)

★ 6.3 · 1,431 ratings on TMDB

The only one who can stop a serial killer is the man who inspired him.

The Raven poster★ 6.3

A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

DirectorJames McTeigue
CastAlice Eve, Brendan Coyle, Brendan Gleeson, Jimmy Yuill, John Cusack, Kevin McNally
GenresCrime, Mystery, Thriller
The emergence reading

The Raven keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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