The RavenEdgar Allan Poe gets a Hollywood makeover in this classic Universal Pictures' horror film adaptation from 1935, featuring Bela Lugosi as a brilliant but morbidly obsessive surgeon who doesn't take rejection well, and Boris Karloff as an unwitting victim. The Raven also borrows from another Poe masterpiece, The Pit and The Pendulum.
Both works by Poe inform the dark fantasies of Burton's seven-year old 'hero', Vincent Malloy, in Burton's short film Vincent (6 mins, USA, 1982), screening with The Raven. Young Vincent - the tormented hero of our story - imagines a transformed suburban world worthy of Edgar Allan Poe in this stop-motion animated short narrated by Burton's childhood idol and muse, Vincent Price.
The Raven screens in an imported print.
