Christian Bale in “The Pale Blue Eye”: Poe-style about Edgar Allan Poe – film review

A corpse without a heart. That’s reason enough to bring detective Augustus Landor out of retirement. Especially since it’s regarding a young West Point Military Academy cadet hanged from a tree. A chilling story told by director Scott Cooper in the Netflix film The Pale Blue Eye – The Memorable Case of Mr Poe told without becoming a horror shocker.