Primal Fear vs The Raven

Primal Fear has the higher audience score (7.7/10 against 6.3/10 for The Raven). The Raven is the shorter watch at 1h 51m compared with 2h 9m. Primal Fear is the older of the two (1996 against 2012). Both are crime, mystery, thriller movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Primal Fear posterPrimal Fear1996 VS The Raven posterThe Raven2012
Primal FearThe Raven
Audience score★ 7.7/10★ 6.3/10
Year19962012
Length2h 9m1h 51m
GenresCrime, Drama, Mystery, ThrillerCrime, Mystery, Thriller
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorGregory HoblitJames McTeigue
Main castJon Seda, Maura Tierney, Richard Gere, Alfre Woodard, Laura LinneyBrendan Coyle, Adrian Rawlins, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Luke Evans, Brendan Gleeson

Synopsis

Primal Fear

An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a third person in the room.

The Raven

A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

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