The Raven
Horror
6.569/10
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|61 min
Release Date: 1935-07-08
Overview - 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.
Production Companies
Universal Pictures
User Reviews
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tmdb28039023
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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." Matheson's mistake was precisely that he approached the material lightly, thoug...
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