The Following

One of the main characters of this television series, Joe Carroll, is a cult leader who has a countless amount of "followers" that will do anything that he says because they want to please him and make him happy. They look at Joe as a Godly figure.

Joe Carroll manipulated so many people, and he had an inspiration for all of his doings;
Edgar Allan Poe.
Joe used Poe's writings as leeway to carry out all of the murders he conducted.
Throughout the first season of The Following, Joe's followers recite many of Poe's lines, most famous the ones from his poem, "The Raven". One of his followers put on an Edgar Allan Poe mask and stood outside on a stoop and recited lines from the poem, which in the town it wasn't abnormal to do this sort of thing, but the twist was the follower went over to a man (who happened to be a critic of his leader, Joe Carroll), soaked him with gasoline and lit him on fire; therefore killing him.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gti9R2pYCHM (promo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7QxT990LRo (1:35-2:45)