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House of Usher (The Fall of the House of Usher) (1960)

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The first of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films, Fall of the House of Usher was originally released as simply House of Usher. Vincent Price stars as the foredoomed Roderick Usher. Living in his decaying family mansion with his young sister Madeline (Myrna Fahey), Roderick does his best to shoo away Madeline's fiance Philip Winthrop (Mark Damon). He tells the young swain that Madeline suffers from the family curse of encroaching madness, and thus cannot be permitted to bear children. After a

Unrated, 1 hr. 25 min.

Horror, Classics, Cult Movies

Richard Matheson

Jun 5, 2001

MGM Home Entertainment

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Corman's filmmaking runs on unchanneled energy and apocalyptic emotions; his is an art without craft.

September 25, 2007 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
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Under the low-budget circumstances, Vincent Price and Myrna Fahey should not be blamed for portraying the decadent Ushers with arch affectation, nor Mark Damon held to account.

May 10, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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Weird and a touch silly, but despite being a B-picture made by a B-studio, neither Roger Corman nor Richard Matheson treat the film as a disposable drive-in time-waster.

October 8, 2011 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy | Comment
Antagony & Ecstasy

A classical vessel for Roger Corman's modernist anxiety

February 13, 2010 Full Review Source: CinePassion | Comment
CinePassion

A superlative Corman/AIP effort and a great beginning to a varying but always interesting series of horror films.

September 25, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

When Corman pitched the project to his superiors at American International Pictures, they asked, 'where's the monster?' Corman quickly replied, 'the house is the monster.'

June 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | Comment
Combustible Celluloid

Certainly some elements are dated now, and Price's fellow actors can't hold a candle to him, but Usher still holds up as an example of stately suspense that doesn't resort to gore, monsters, or overuse of shock effects.

April 5, 2006 Full Review Source: DVDJournal.com | Comment
DVDJournal.com

The real star of MGM's new DVD edition of The Fall of the House of Usher is Roger Corman, whose engaging commentary track is an 80-minute crash course on getting things right the first time.

April 5, 2006 Full Review Source: DVDJournal.com | Comment
DVDJournal.com

The sickly decadence and claustrophobia of the Usher household is admirably evoked by Floyd Crosby's 'Scope photography and Daniel Haller's art direction.

February 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

It's one of the better Poe versions made by Corman, if not his best.

January 18, 2006 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A primeira das oito parcerias entre Corman e Price funciona maravilhosamente bem até os quinze minutos finais, quando passa a depender de Fahey para assustar.

February 21, 2005 Comment
Cinema em Cena

Corman's bid for respectability nearly works.

November 26, 2003 Comment
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

The Poe-inspired source material occasionally rises above the Corman-fueled production.

December 10, 2002 Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | Comment
Filmcritic.com

Quite possibly the finest combination of Corman, Price and Poe.

July 29, 2002 Comment
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Roger Corman comes up with a rather respectable film. Sure, he has some great material to work from, but between his Little Shop of Horror and Sharktopus, this certainly sticks out. He's lucky enough to get Vincent Price involved. A man that was born for horror, though he isn't confined by it. There is genuine

April 30, 2011
kiriyamakazou

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I love how Corman was able to make Poe's stories into films so brilliantly, and all of them starring Price too! I didn't particularly like how Price had blond hair in this movie, he looks better with dark hair, but his performance is still great, and the other actors are good. I love the tale of madness, and I highly

September 5, 2010
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