Eerie Teaser Trailer for Christian Bale's Horror Film THE PALE BLUE EYE
Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for its upcoming period mystery horror thriller The Pale Blue Eye. The movie was directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart, Antlers), and it stars Christian Bale and Harry Melling (Harry Potter, The Queens Gambit) as Edgar Allan Poe.
I love the dark tone of this film, and while this teaser doesn’t show much, so far I like what I’m seeing. The movie is based on Louis Bayard’s 2006 novel of the same name, and it’s a Gothic thriller that the filmmaker has been looking to make for more than a decade.
The story centers on a young cadet the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe and a series of murders that took place at the United States Military Academy, West Point, in 1830. Bale portrays retired detective Augustus Landor, tasked with investigating those murders. The synopsis reads:
West Point, 1830. In the early hours of a gray winter morning, a cadet is found dead. But after the body arrives at the morgue, tragedy becomes savagery when it’s discovered that the young man’s heart has been skillfully removed. Fearing irreparable damage to the fledgling military academy, its leaders turn to a local detective, Augustus Landor (Bale), to solve the murder. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, Landor enlists the help of one of their own to pursue the case, an eccentric cadet with a disdain for the rigors of the military and a penchant for poetry—a young man named Edgar Allan Poe.
The movie also stars Gillian Anderson (The Crown), Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody), Charlotte Gainsbourg (Antichrist), Toby Jones (First Cow), Harry Lawtey (Industry), Simon McBurney (Carnival Row), Timothy Spall (Mr. Turner), Hadley Robinson (Moxie), Joey Brooks (Molly’s Game), Brennan Cook (Encounter), Gideon Glick (Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Fred Hechinger (The White Lotus), Matt Helm (Tragedy of Macbeth), Steven Maier (The Plot Against America), Charlie Tahan (Ozark), and Robert Duvall (The Judge).
The Pale Blue Eye comes to select theaters on December 23, 2022, and it will later stream on Netflix on January 6, 2023.