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Saturday, September 07, 2013

Kate Beckinsale Digs "Eliza Graves"



Sneak Peek new images from director Brad Anderson's thriller "Eliza Graves", starring Kate Beckinsale, Ben Kingsley and Michael Caine, based on the comedic circa 1845 short story "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether", by author Edgar Allen Poe:

Production started in Bulgaria, June 2013, with Beckinsale starring as a 'Harvard Medical School' graduate who accepts a job at an insane asylum. In Poe's short story :


"...a person visits a mental institution in southern France, known for a revolutionary new method of treating mental illnesses called the 'system of soothing'. After touring the grounds of the hospital she is invited to a bizarre dinner, joined by twenty-five to thirty other people and a large, lavish spread of food, accompanied by musicians.


It is then realized that the staff have replaced the system of soothing with a much more strict system, based on the work of 'Doctor Tarr' and 'Professor Fether', with the patients having overthrown their doctors and nurses, usurping their positions and locking them up as lunatics.


"It is then revealed that the dinner guests are the patients who had just recently taken over..."


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