So many versions are already made of The Black cat and here we go again. This version has nothing to do with horror at all. This is about Edgar Allen Poe himself and the life he lived.
Jeffrey Combs plays Poe and that's all excellent but I was waiting to see some horror in it. Sure, you will say, didn't you see the ax going into a head, yes I did and it did looked gruesome and yes, being captured behind a wall and yes, poking out a cat's eye, I've seen it all but somehow I wasn't attracted to the story. Maybe I was thinking to see something magical between Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs like they did earlier in another Poe story, Re-Animator (1985).
Maybe it was towards the end the back and forward situations build that makes it less watchable. As a whole it could have worked out fine for a full feature but for an episode of MOH it didn't deliver on my part.
Jeffrey Combs plays Poe and that's all excellent but I was waiting to see some horror in it. Sure, you will say, didn't you see the ax going into a head, yes I did and it did looked gruesome and yes, being captured behind a wall and yes, poking out a cat's eye, I've seen it all but somehow I wasn't attracted to the story. Maybe I was thinking to see something magical between Stuart Gordon and Jeffrey Combs like they did earlier in another Poe story, Re-Animator (1985).
Maybe it was towards the end the back and forward situations build that makes it less watchable. As a whole it could have worked out fine for a full feature but for an episode of MOH it didn't deliver on my part.