Less than a week into the new year and Netflix has already released an exciting new blockbuster, as The Pale Blue Eye dropped on the platform on Thursday (January 5). The period mystery-thriller takes viewers back to 1830s New York as a veteran detective is hired to solve a gruesome crime.
It stars Christian Bale as world-weary Augustus Landor, as he travels to West Point at the behest of a local military academy after a series of grisly murders. The body of a young cadet has had his heart skillfully removed, suggesting something sinister is afoot.
Finding his investigation hindered by the other cadets’ code of silence, Landor enlists the help of one of their own to pursue the case, an eccentric young man with a disdain for the rigors of the military – a young cadet named Edgar Allan Poe (Harry Melling).
