Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

suzayj This laughable excuse for a film was both aesthetically assaulting and insulting....to the viewer and to the media industry. there was nothing even remotely entertaining or well done about this production. the whole thing wasn't even worth the edit that would have told them not to attempt to bring it into the world. i couldn't even watch the whole thing. someone decided they could make a film just because they had a cheap camera and some makeup one could purchase at any Walgreens. I could film something better than this with a potato. I don't know whats worse, the film itself, or the fact that someone allowed this garbage to be published....shame publishers. I'd say the same to the producers, but seeing as this must have been a no-budget film, i think its safe to say there are no producers to blame for such catastrophic defecation of the film industry. My advice...DO NOT WATCH THIS FILM! (Strongly recommended)

mindsclay I have read some of the other comments and I concur 100%. How do movies of such low caliber actually get into video stores? This movie makes "Shadow Beings 2005 (V)" look like Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings. Seriously. I have watched many low-to-no budget movies and found redeeming qualities in most of them. However, this one is most likely the worst (I have yet to see more from this guy), even this director's movie "Black Dahlia" was better (not by much).At first, I thought I was watching some experimental film. But there was no continuity in the experimentation except for bad. There was no story cohesion. I was really trying to follow all the way to the end, but in doing so, I had to create a story in my mind to compensate for the lack of one in this movie. Very poor story telling.I will continue to watch no-budget movies because I know there are okay writers, okay directors, okay actors, okay editors, etc. that could make an okay movie. At least a 5!

kdt100506 OK. Well lets start out by saying that i wish that the local movie store had a satisfaction guaranteed policy, because i would have my money back! And the best part is, i get the movie for a whole week! (OK thats a joke) Being a huge Edgar fan, i thought when I saw EDGAR ALLAN POES THE RAVEN, that it would actually be about Edgar Allan Poe's "the Raven"...well I suppose that COULD be what the writer was going for, but in, in my opinion, was so off that it is an insult to Edgar Allen Poe. It starts out with "lenore" and her grandfather talking about how she was told to kill the man from her dream...OK stop. What grandpa would be reading Edgars work to a child for bedtime?? Next... the movie went on for several mins, a guy gets killed (in the dumbest way, and most predictable) and then some werewolf in driving a car and everyone is sitting around a swimming pool with candle... WTF??? Lets just say i fast forwarded to the end. and left it at that. Do you hear that? Its the sound of Edgar rolling over in his grave. So when you stumble upon this movie in the store, steer clear, and run away as fast as you can. Rent Bambi or something. At least you'll get your money's worth.

Coventry I realize he's dead since quite some time now, but I sincerely hope that the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe still has enough strength and energy left to rise from the depths of eternal darkness and HAUNT Ulli Lommel (as well as everyone else involved in this blasphemous turkey) until he opts for premature burial. Yes, I do realize that sounds cruel, but … have you seen this movie?!? "The Raven" is the type of film of which you initially think: "Hey, how bad can it possibly be?" The film is inspired by the writings of the legendary Edgar Allen Poe, so as long as the script remains faithful to its source, very few things can go wrong. Clearly a lot of things can go wrong when Ulli Lommel is in charge! The plot is a seemingly endless bunch of retarded nonsense that has NOTHING to do with the original poem, the cast members are a gathering of insufferable losers that don't even deserve to star in an amateurish YouTube video, the digital camera-work and editing appear to be the work of toddlers and the arrogant wannabe-artistic atmosphere nearly causes you to vomit. Lenore is a twenty-something untalented singer whose mind is inexplicably linked to Poe's and he even appears to her in nightmares. There's a killer (the penis-munching freak from "Cannibal") on the loose and Edgar commands her to go after him. Or something like that, whatever, nobody cares anyway, because it's all pure rubbish. Lommel himself makes a brief appearance as the girl's grandfather when she's five. He wears a ridiculous eye-patch and a sea captain's hat, which pretty much states that he hasn't got the slightest bit of self-dignity left. Once upon a time the promising director of the video-nasty classic "The Bogey Man", Ulli Lommel now just appears to be on a mission to become the world's record holder of repugnant films linked to his name. The amount of crap this guy unleashed upon the world is literally incredible. "B.T.K Killer", "Zombie Nation", "Green River Killer" … You better just avoid everything he did.Enough about this piece of junk! Back in the 1960's, director/producer Roger Corman made a cycle of films based on the writings of Edgar Allen Poe; all starring the magnificent Vincent Price and all close to brilliant. Corman's reputation is questionable and his nickname is "King of the B's", but he surely had (and probably still has) more sense of class and finesse in his smallest toe than Ulli Lommel in his entire body.