SDCC 2011: Beautifully Bloody Movie Poster for THE RAVEN

Relativity Media has released this great movie poster for James McTeigue's new Edgar Allen Poe murder thriller The Raven, witch stars John Cusack as Poe, Luke Evans, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson and Oliver Jackson-Cohen. This really is a beautiful poster design.

I'm actually excited about this movie, everything I've seen from is so far looks solid. I love the dark gothic look that it has, and I'm a fan of Poe's work. Even though this is a fictionalized story, I still think it will be a sold film. At least that's what I'm hoping for. The film tells the story of the last five mysterious days of Edgar Allen Poe’s life, following Poe as he joins the hunt for a serial killer whose murders are inspired by his own stories. In a previous interview McTeigue explained went into some more detail on the plot saying,

There's basically a serial killer loose in 1850's Baltimore and he's using Poe's stories as his methodology, so then he leaves clues at each murder and says it's up to Poe to find him before he kills (again).... does one like The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Pit and Pendulum and works through Poe’s stories in an increasingly gruesome way, whilst at same time kidnapping his fiancé... we have real elements from Poe’s life, in and out of the story. He was a troubled figure and that’s alluded to in the film. Ultimately he becomes one of the characters in his own story.

The film is set to open up on March 9th 2012. What do you think of the new poster?