The actor plays a local detective investigating a killing at the West Point military academy in 1830.
Harry Melling, famous for his role as Dudley Dursley in theHarry Pottermovies, plays Poe.
“Darkest night, black with hell-charneled fury, leaving only that deathly pale blue eye.”

Christian Bale stars as Augustus Landor in Netflix’s gothic murder mystery ‘The Pale Blue Eye.'.Scott Garfield/Netflix
So Augustus enlists Poe, another cadet with a penchant for poetry.
The Pale Blue Eyeis out in select theaters this Dec. 23 and on Netflix Jan. 6.
Watch the teaser above.