roychris20 This movie is beyond awful! Plot, straight from Ulli Lommel's ripoff bookshelf. Oh, did I mention that the sound is awful? The casting is dreadful. There's one thing I've noticed about Lommel: he always uses someone else's ideas rather than his own. I guess he thinks it's all right if he uses real cases, right? Wrong.Perhaps if he'd actually based his movie on Poe's work, it would have been worth seeing. Unfortunately, he didn't. The only thing he used is the name. A capitalist attempt to steal a good writer's words;and then he doesn't use what's available. This movie is worse than "Borderline Cult." The stabbing sounds were more like a dribbling basketball than a stabbing; the blood looked like watered down Kool-aid. "The Raven" is probably one of the worst movies ever made.

daddydillinger-1 This is by far the worst movie I've ever seen. Actually I couldn't even bear through it to the end. Sometimes a movie is so bad that it is good ... i.e fun to watch for comedic value. The Raven can't even be justified to watch from that perspective. Unfortunately this movie is actually in my DVD collection (until I find something better to do with it than collect dust).Why Ulli Lommel continues to get financial backing for the crap he spews out, I'll never know. He has three movies in the 100 worst movies of all time, two of which are in the top ten. This movie definitely belongs in that category. Absolutely nothing redemptive about it.

d-vanderm That's 81 minutes of my life wasted. May I please get them back? Horrible^infinity. Do not rent or buy. You will be Sorry.I should have checked out international movie database before I did. :(I wish I could get a raven to pluck out my eyes so that I may never see anything this horrible ever again.Line for filler. We Must have ten lines to post. International movie database you really need to rethink that rule. Is this enough lines? I sure as hell hope so for your sake.Sometimes shouting is necessary to get your point across. international movie database rethink your message policies.This will be the last post I ever submit to this place. Your posting policies suck and your posting software sucks. international movie database you're doing a great job at pissing off regulars. Have a nice day.

Coventry I realize he's dead since quite some time now, but I sincerely hope that the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe still has enough strength and energy left to rise from the depths of eternal darkness and HAUNT Ulli Lommel (as well as everyone else involved in this blasphemous turkey) until he opts for premature burial. Yes, I do realize that sounds cruel, but … have you seen this movie?!? "The Raven" is the type of film of which you initially think: "Hey, how bad can it possibly be?" The film is inspired by the writings of the legendary Edgar Allen Poe, so as long as the script remains faithful to its source, very few things can go wrong. Clearly a lot of things can go wrong when Ulli Lommel is in charge! The plot is a seemingly endless bunch of retarded nonsense that has NOTHING to do with the original poem, the cast members are a gathering of insufferable losers that don't even deserve to star in an amateurish YouTube video, the digital camera-work and editing appear to be the work of toddlers and the arrogant wannabe-artistic atmosphere nearly causes you to vomit. Lenore is a twenty-something untalented singer whose mind is inexplicably linked to Poe's and he even appears to her in nightmares. There's a killer (the penis-munching freak from "Cannibal") on the loose and Edgar commands her to go after him. Or something like that, whatever, nobody cares anyway, because it's all pure rubbish. Lommel himself makes a brief appearance as the girl's grandfather when she's five. He wears a ridiculous eye-patch and a sea captain's hat, which pretty much states that he hasn't got the slightest bit of self-dignity left. Once upon a time the promising director of the video-nasty classic "The Bogey Man", Ulli Lommel now just appears to be on a mission to become the world's record holder of repugnant films linked to his name. The amount of crap this guy unleashed upon the world is literally incredible. "B.T.K Killer", "Zombie Nation", "Green River Killer" … You better just avoid everything he did.Enough about this piece of junk! Back in the 1960's, director/producer Roger Corman made a cycle of films based on the writings of Edgar Allen Poe; all starring the magnificent Vincent Price and all close to brilliant. Corman's reputation is questionable and his nickname is "King of the B's", but he surely had (and probably still has) more sense of class and finesse in his smallest toe than Ulli Lommel in his entire body.