Well here’s an interesting concept: What if a descendant of Edgar Allan Poe was alive in today’s day and age? That alone would be pretty cool, right? Now let’s give him some nasty writing skills like his great granddaddy and pair him up with a cannibal. Are we having fun yet?
That’s exactly what we’re getting with Francis Xavier’s POE. Here’s a more detailed synopsis: The film follows formerly acquitted and rehabilitated criminal Dr. Andrew Casey, who relocates to Los Angeles under the alias Jack Conway, aka ‘The Chef’. Conway and his butler, Mr. Peeples, establish a respected soup kitchen/charity, ‘The Help Feeding Foundation’, which lures the likes of actresses and models under false pretense.
The women are in fact obtained to satisfy Casey’s culinary tastes. Conway handpicks respected writer Jonathan Poe, descendant of famed writer Edgar Allan Poe, to immortalize him in the form of an autobiography. Poe is intrigued by Conway and his lucrative offer and agrees to the assignment. Once at the house, Poe is forced to witness all manner of horrors without the ability to either escape or help the women who have been captured.
Resigned to his fate, Poe takes up the task at hand and begins recording the autobiography of Casey and his cannibalistic spree.
What do you guys think? Original and twisted, nice! Let’s not get our hopes too high with this one though… at least not until we see more from POE. Stelio Savante stars as ‘Jonathan Poe’ with David Fine playing ‘Andrew Casey/Jack Conway’ and Tony Todd rounding out the cast as ‘Mr. Peeples.’ You can check out the film’s official website right over HERE and some early artwork above. POE starts filming in Los Angeles next month.