The Pale Blue Eye

I was REALLY excited to see The Pale Blue Eye – as the whole thing was shot around my hometown of Pittsburgh. Western PA is filled with well-preserved colonial sites that are located within state parks. Specifically, I spend a lot of time at McConnells Mill State Park — where the ice house, and murder #2 scenes were filmed.

The film follows detective, Augustus Landor (Christian Bale) and a young Edgar Allen Poe as they work together to solve a pair of murders at the West Point Academy in 1830. It’s an inventive origin story of…