The film starts off quite slow and its all circled around a young writer named Edgar Allan Poe who is played by John Cusack. It is based around the olden times and When Poes writing starts to die down and no one seems to want to read his work no more, a pyscotic killer decides to start killng people in ways thats he copies from Poes stories untill the killer moves in a little bit closer to home and kidknaps the love of his life Emily who is played by Alice Eve. The killer then starts killing other people and sending Poe down a staircaise of spiral clues that mean he not only has to work together with the poilce to stop his stories becoming reality, but also so he can rescue emilly before her time runs out.

Each clue he recieved comes off the dead bodies that they find with a bit of a dark twist. As the poilce and Poe race against the clock to save Emilly they also have to try to stay one step ahead of the killer so they need to figure out what his next move will be to, In order to save the innocent people that are in the killers grasp whilst also trying to figure out who the killer is.

The film itself in my opionion takes a while to kick in properly but once it dose it keeps your mind wondering and trying to figure out who the killer actually is.
The actors do a great job and keep things intense.
The detective is played by Luke Evans and im quite sure you will recongnise a few of the others in the film.
Its a cuddle up to the sofa and get a takeaway kind of film and would recommend buying it.
Its a film for the adults and i would not recommend that anyone under the age of 16 watching it as there is some quite grusum bit in it.