The Raven (2006 film)

2006 American film

The Raven

DVD Release Cover (USA)

Directed by| Ulli Lommel
Written by| Ulli Lommel
Produced by| Ulli Lommel
Jeff Frentzen
Nola Roeper
Starring| Jillian Swanson
Jack Quinn
Sharon Senina
Michelle Guest
Cinematography| Bianco Pacelli
Edited by| Xgin
Brian Lawrence
Music by| Robert J. Walsh

Production
companies

The Shadow Factory
Boogeyman Movies International

Distributed by| Lions Gate Entertainment

Release date

* 2006 (2006)

Running time

| 81 minutes
Country| United States
Language| English

The Raven is a 2006 American direct-to-video production horror film directed by Ulli Lommel and references the 1845 poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. The DVD case cover art carries the title, Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven.[1]

## Plot[edit]

Lenore as a child dreams of a man, who is evil, according to the nuns that work at the orphanage she lives at, with the flight attendant who is her adoptive grandfather. Her adoptive grandfather reads her poetry, but after his death she only reads "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Years later, she is raped by the man she saw in her dreams, who is called Skinner, and then she kills him. After his death, he returns from hell as a supernatural murderer/raven. By this time, she has joined an LA band as the lead singer. Skinner slowly kills all of her band members. Skinner then finally proceeds to try murdering Lenore to have sex with the body, but Edgar Allan Poe returns from the dead and tells Skinner that Lenore is "his". This somehow stops Skinner, and then Poe and Lenore walk across a bridge. Then, the movie flashes back to the room she was in, and Skinner kills her this time.

## Production[edit]

The Raven was filmed in the October 2005 and November 2005, for the most part in Marina Del Rey, California and Venice, California. A sequence was shot during a Halloween festival held along the Venice canals.

The recording studio sequences and the pool-side murder sequence were filmed at the San Fernando Valley home of Robert J. Walsh, who wrote the music for the film, including co-writing (with Lommel) the original song, "Dead of the Night." The house features an unusual guitar-shaped pool.

The various exterior scenes of Skinner in his mountaintop lair were filmed in the hills behind Malibu, California. Some of these scenes were reportedly directed by producer Jeff Frentzen.

The first victims of Skinner include a record executive (portrayed by producer Jeff Frentzen) and his assistant, portrayed by the film's editor, Brian Lawrence. One of the priests in the exorcism scene is portrayed by British film critic Calum Waddell.

The trained raven used in some scenes was named Oscar.[2]

## References[edit]

1. ^ DVD cover art
2. ^ Scream Queen Rising

## External links[edit]

* Official website
* The Raven at IMDb
* Movie trailer

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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" (1845)

Film|

* The Raven (1915)
* The Raven (1935)
* The Raven (1963)
* The Raven (2006)
* Evil Calls: The Raven (2011)
* The Raven (2012)

Literature|

* Barnaby Rudge
* The Blessed Damozel
* Cadaeic Cadenza

Music|

* The Raven (Lou Reed album)
* "The Raven" (The Alan Parsons Project song)
* "That's How the Story Ends" (Five Iron Frenzy song)

Other|

* Edgar Allan Poe: Once Upon a Midnight (play)
* "Treehouse of Horror"
* The Raven (painting series)
* The Pigeon
* Vincent
* "The Raven" in popular culture

Related|

* Grip (raven)

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Ulli Lommel

Feature films|

* Haytabo (1971)
* The Tenderness of Wolves (1973)
* Jodeln is ka Sünd (1974)
* Wachtmeister Rahn (1974)
* A Second Spring [de] (1975)
* Adolf and Marlene (1977)
* Ausgerechnet Bananen (1978)
* Cocaine Cowboys (1979)
* Blank Generation (1980)
* The Boogey Man (1980)
* BrainWaves (1982)
* Olivia (1983)
* Boogeyman II (1983)
* The Devonsville Terror (1983)
* Strangers in Paradise (1984)
* Revenge of the Stolen Stars (1985)
* I.F.O.: Identified Flying Object (1987)
* Overkill (1987)
* Cold Heat (1989)
* WarBirds (1989)
* The Big Sweat (1991)
* Marilyn, My Love (1994)
* Daniel – Der Zauberer (2004)
* Zombie Nation (2005)
* Zodiac Killer (2005)
* B.T.K. Killer (2005)
* Green River Killer (2005)
* Killer Pickton (2006)
* The Raven (2006)
* Black Dahlia (2006)
* Diary of a Cannibal (2007)
* Curse of the Zodiac (2007)
* The Tomb (2007)
* Borderline Cult (2007)
* Killer Nurse (aka: Angel of Death 2007)
* Nightstalker (2007)
* Baseline Killer (2008)
* Son of Sam (2008)
* Dungeon Girl (2008) (aka: Blood Dungeon, 2012)
* Absolute Evil (2009)
* D.C. Sniper (2010)
* Mondo Americana (2015)
* Factory Cowboys: Working with Warhol (2018)
* Queen of Rio (2018)
* Genus X (2018)
* America: Land of the Freeks (2018)

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