. though for a film that seem to be try to market itself a a horror and there be a distinct lack of blood . there be also a distinct lack of skilled directing and acting and editing and and script writing . jeremy london put in one of most appalling performance i have ever see his descent into the maelström of madness be achingly self aware and clumsy . oh look at him twitch . oh look at him drink strong spirit . oh look at him raise his brow and and cock his head at a jaunty angle . oh look at his unwashed and greasy dark hair . oh listen to his affectedly husky voice . he must be a tortured artist or writer or genius . oh and yes and out come the poet shirt it another boy who think he byron . ( or poe . ) oh for the love of . do someone give this guy a manual on how to act good or do they just pull him out of a cardboard box somewhere and the defunct little plastic toy prize in a discontinued brand of bargain bin cereal . okay and that be a stupid line but that only because london performance have melt my brain with it awfulness . katherine heigl be cute and and very briar rise and but have yet to grow into her acting shoe in this film she deliver her line like she be be hold up and in fact and her whole performance be very wooden and her pose as stiff a her line who know and perhaps she be just react to and and try to neutralise and jeremy london flailing excess and but if that the case and she take it too far . notable be arie verveen a poe while his character role be confuse and he deliver the best performance of the piece . he and quite simply and look right and but it more than that he have some sort of depth and i believe that he have a life beyond the dismal two dimensional quality of the rest of the character . huh and maybe it just because i like poe and and could thus just let my mind wander and invent while he be on screen whatever and he have an interest factor otherwise miss . the rest of the character be a faceless blur there be all the usual caricature represent the perky blonde best friend who a bit of a floozy while the smitten local cop who a bit of a dork while the protective old man who perhaps have too much un fatherly interest in our heroine while the scheme old witch and etc . and etc . and yawn and yawn . a with the wouldistinct lack of blood for a horror movie issue and none of the theme that they mention ( and that london character mention so scathingly in his attack on poe writing ) be follow through on . a another reviewer say there be potential here represent murder and incest and genuinely shock stuff and but instead they skirt away from the issue and and cut away from the violence ( a raise candlestick swing through the air closing in on it victim then cut to black . this be fine in a noirish traditional horror and indeed and it expect and and be fondly receive when it happen it a dear convention and especially when accompany by fake lightning bolt and intense siouxie eye makeup but in descendant it just come across a clumsy and or a though the editor get queasy at the last minute and cut it out . ) this could have either be a very tense psychological thriller the horror of palingenesis or delusion or madness or a simple ( and fun ) slasher movie represent it try to be both and or neither ( something new and exciting . ) and but either way it fail dismally . the only horror element of this entire movie be it epic dullness . i think the editor ( if there be one at all ) must have be drink when s or he chop this thing up there be awkwardly foreshorten scene while scene that appear to be out of order ( but that could have just be the poor script ) . likewise the director and cinematographer there be some very strange shot and frame that i think be mean to be tribute to hitchcock or brown and but just end up look silly ( again and fine in a noir and but this be try to be something else . ) the whole thing perhaps may have be funny ( in that way that previous reviewer have mention omg how do this get make . ) if i have be in the mood for some trash bagging and unfortunately for me i have settle on the couch and with the light down low and with the express intention of scar myself silly this be a very poor film and and i be afraid i can not recommend it to people and not even for laugh . please and please and do not waste your time or money on this either borrow a real horror or thriller film and or find yourself a copy of poe fantastical tale and either way and you will have a far more enjoyable and frighten night than you could ever hope to achieve with this rubbish .