The Pale Blue Eye, a cerebral midnight movie.

The Pale Blue Eye is a stylish and moody period mystery set at West Point Military Academy in 1830.

Christian Bale stars as Augustus Landor, a veteran detective hired to investigate a gruesome murder that occurred on campus.

As the detective conducts interviews and examines clues, he is assisted by a talented but troubled young cadet with a keen interest in crime-solving played by Harry Melling.

Over the course of the investigation, the two develop an uneasy partnership and friendship.

The murders are eerily symbolic, the work of a perpetrator with a disturbing artistic flair.

As the body count rises, the detective realizes he and his young assistant may have underestimated the killer's psychopathic intelligence.

Directed by Scott Cooper with a keen eye for Gothic atmosphere, the film immerses viewers in an elegantly rendered world of shadowy corridors and lamplit passages.

Tension mounts as the detectives race to capture the elusive murderer before another victim is claimed.

Featuring stellar performances and a foreboding tone, The Pale Blue Eye is a stylish mystery thriller that will delight fans of classic Gothic stories like Edgar Allan Poe's works that clearly inspired it. A cerebral midnight movie.