The Pale Blue Eye, a cerebral midnight movie.
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The Pale Blue Eye is a stylish and moody period mystery set at West Point Military Academy in 1830.
Christian Bale stars as Augustus Landor, a veteran detective hired to investigate a gruesome murder that occurred on campus.
As the detective conducts interviews and examines clues, he is assisted by a talented but troubled young cadet with a keen interest in crime-solving played by Harry Melling.
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Over the course of the investigation, the two develop an uneasy partnership and friendship.
The murders are eerily symbolic, the work of a perpetrator with a disturbing artistic flair.
As the body count rises, the detective realizes he and his young assistant may have underestimated the killer's psychopathic intelligence.
Directed by Scott Cooper with a keen eye for Gothic atmosphere, the film immerses viewers in an elegantly rendered world of shadowy corridors and lamplit passages.
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Tension mounts as the detectives race to capture the elusive murderer before another victim is claimed.
Featuring stellar performances and a foreboding tone, The Pale Blue Eye is a stylish mystery thriller that will delight fans of classic Gothic stories like Edgar Allan Poe's works that clearly inspired it. A cerebral midnight movie.
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