The Raven (1935)
The uncanny master of make-up in a new amazing shocker!
Director: Lew Landers · Writer: David Boehm
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated, castle-like home.
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Director
Lew Landers
Cast
Boris Karloff
Edmond Bateman 
Bela Lugosi
Dr. Richard Vollin 
Lester Matthews
Dr. Jerry Holden 
Irene Ware
Jean Thatcher 
Samuel S. Hinds
Judge Thatcher 
Spencer Charters
Col. Bertram Grant 
Inez Courtney
Mary Burns 
Ian Wolfe
Geoffrey 'Pinky' Burns 
Maidel Turner
Mrs. Grant 
Raine Bennett
Poe (uncredited) 
Al Ferguson
The Crook (uncredited)
Nina Golden
Dancer (uncredited) User Reviews (1)
The Raven succeeded in 1935 where Roger Corman and Vincent Price failed 28 years later. The 1963 version of The Raven was written by Richard Matheson, who is quoted by Wikipedia as saying, "After hearing that they wanted to make a movie out of a poem, I felt it was a total joke, so comedy was the only way to do it." Matheson's mistake was precisely that he approached the material lightly, though; it's because Raven '35 takes itself deathly seriously — director Lew Landerss and screenwriter David Boehm are more popish than the Pope (or, in this case, more Poe-pish than Poe) — that the film transcends the horror genre and enters, albeit unwittingly, the realm of (self) parody. Consider this: early in the film the characters attend a dance recital entitled "The Spirit of Poe," in which a dancer performs a choreography while we listen to the titular poem over a musical background a…
