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The Raven is a 1935 American horror film directed by Louis Friedlander (who started to be credited as Lew Landers the following year) and starring Boris Karloff and Béla Lugosi. Billed as having been "suggested by" Edgar Allan Poe 's 1845 poem of the same title , excerpts of which are quoted at a few points in the film, it was adapted from an ...
The Raven: Directed by Lew Landers. With Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lester Matthews, Irene Ware. A brilliant surgeon with a morbid obsession for instruments of torture grows dangerously obsessed with a young socialite whose life he's saved.
- (6.7K)
- Crime, Horror
- Lew Landers
- 1935-07-08
But the resulting film, The Raven (1935), offered an intriguing twist on the two actors' previous collaboration. In The Black Cat , Karloff played the irredeemable villain with Lugosi cast as a persecuted rival; this time Lugosi had the major role - starring as a demonic surgeon with an Edgar Allan Poe fixation - and Karloff took the smaller ...
Synopsis. A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having ...
- (45)
- 61 min
- Lew Landers
The film was written by Richard Matheson, based on references to Poe's 1845 poem "The Raven". AIP released the film as a double feature with Night Tide. Three decades earlier, Karloff had appeared in another film with the same title, Lew Landers's 1935 horror film The Raven with Bela Lugosi.
The Raven succeeded in 1935 where Roger Corman and Vincent Price failed 28 years later. The 1963 version of The Raven was written by Richard Matheson, who is quoted by Wikipedia as saying, "After hearing that they wanted to make a movie out of a poem, I felt it was a total joke, so comedy was the only way to do it."
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A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge’s daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having ...
