Plot
The year is 1895. Steam-powered ships fly through the air. Clockwork robots have replaced servants. And a grisly murder has taken place in the dark night of New York City. Called to the scene of the ritualistic murder of a young woman, newly appointed police commissioner Teddy Roosevelt discovers Detective Wayne and his police officers power usurped by two special investigators appointed by the White House: Occultist Edgar Allan Poe, a clockwork automaton housing the soul of the literary legend, and Mrs. Emma Entwistle, a dangerous assassin with a unique connection to the otherworld. When they illicit information from the demon Neshrew, a much darker and more dangerous plot of world domination is uncovered.
Keywords: alternate-history, automaton, demon, murder-mystery, steampunk
Plot
This movie is set in the mid 1800s and involves poet Edgar Allan Poe. A serial killer is on the loose and murdering people using Poe's 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 Poe's lover becomes a target. Will they stop the killer in time?
Keywords: 19th-century, alcoholic, animal-in-title, author, axe, ballroom-dancing, baltimore-maryland, based-on-the-works-of-edgar-allan-poe, begins-with-biographical-note, bird-in-title
The only one who can stop a serial killer is the man who inspired him.
Edgar Allan Poe: You are referring to one of my stories. A work of fiction!
Edgar Allan Poe: What's going on?::Detective Fields: I'm Detective Fields. Please, sit down, Mr. Poe.::Edgar Allan Poe: Yes. The infamous Detective Fields. Am I under arrest?::Detective Fields: No... not just yet.::Edgar Allan Poe: Then I'd rather stand! It makes it easier to leave!
Edgar Allan Poe: Take this kiss upon the brow!/And, in parting from you now/ Thus much let me avow/You are not wrong, who deem/All that we see or seem/Is but a dream within a dream.
[first title card]::Title Card: On October 7, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe was found, near death, on a park bench in Baltimore, Maryland. The last days of his life remain a mystery.
[first lines]::Breathless Tenement Man: It's the fourth floor.
[last lines]::Detective Fields: Hello, Ivan.
Maddux: I believe that God gave him a spark of genius and quenched it in misery. But as far as something like this... The only thing he's ever killed is a bottle of brandy.
Edgar Allan Poe: Her innocence was the first part of her soul to die.
Edgar Allan Poe: You're mad.::Ivan: Really, Mr. Poe? You're one to talk.
Ivan: That's life, isn't it? So much less satisfying than fiction.
A single challenge. 15 international directors. 13 classic tales of terror from Edgar Allan Poe. Only three days of filming. The result...
A single challenge. 15 directors. 13 Poe's horror tales. 3 days of filming. 90 minutes of uncanny.
Plot
Lives and Deaths of the Poets spoofs and parodies incidents taken from the lives of famous writers, artists, and musicians (collectively "Poets") throughout history. Comprising a series of approximately 50 comic vignettes, the movie is the fictional story of what really did not happen to these famed Poets, who have so enriched all of our lives.
Keywords: emperor-nero, independent-film, musician, nudity, parody, poet, sketch-comedy, spoof, writer
Seek Revenge
Virginia Poe: Edgar, you must go on!
Once upon a midnight dreary
Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. He was the first well-known American writer to try to earn a living through writing alone, resulting in a financially difficult life and career.
He was born as Edgar Poe in Boston, Massachusetts; he was orphaned young when his mother died shortly after his father abandoned the family. Poe was taken in by John and Frances Allan, of Richmond, Virginia, but they never formally adopted him. He attended the University of Virginia for one semester but left due to lack of money. After enlisting in the Army and later failing as an officer's cadet at West Point, Poe parted ways with the Allans. His publishing career began humbly, with an anonymous collection of poems, Tamerlane and Other Poems (1827), credited only to "a Bostonian".
Hear the sledges with the bells,
silver bells, silver bells,
What world of marriement this melody foretells.
How they tnkle, tinkle, tinkle, in the icy airy of night.
While the stars that over sprinkle, all the heavens seem to twinkle with a crystal line delight.
Keeping time, time, time, in a sort of runic rhyme,
Keeping time, keeping time, keeping time. Keeping time, keeping time, keeping time, keeping time.
To the tin- tinabulation that so musically wells from the bells, bells.