"This film is Poe's origin story" Scott Cooper discusses his Netflix film placing Edgar Allan Poe in a detective story starring Christian Bale Salon · Jan 6, 2023
Movie review: ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ spies a badly written mystery flop An overacted, badly written, murder mystery dud, “The Pale Blue Eye” takes its title from a quote from Edgar Allan Poe’s 1843 Boston-set story “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Poe himself is also a character in the film, an adaptation of the 2006 novel by Louis Bayard adapted by writer-director Scott Cooper… Boston Herald · Dec 23, 2022