House of Usher

Fissures of concrete and of the mind...

Phillip Winthrop has been searching for his missing fiancée, Madeline Usher. Tracking her down to the Usher family castle, he finds that Madeline is held strangely under the spell of her brother Roderick. The house itself also seems to be laden heavy with a mystical sense of dread and impending death. Can Phillip persuade Madeline to leave this crumbling abode? will he himself be at the mercy of Roderick and the Usher curse?

Filmed in glorious CinemaScope with vivid colour photography from Floyd Crosby, based on a story from dark master writer Edgar Allen Poe, boasting Vincent Price in the lead role, and directed by Roger Corman with a budget worthy of his vision, House Of Usher (The Fall Of) is...

Its a mad house, a mad house!

In the late 1830s, a man from Boston (Mark Damon) visits the ancestral manor of his fiancé out in the country (Myrna Fahey), but he finds her curiously ill and her older brother nigh insane (Vincent Price). Whats going on?

"House of Usher" (1960) was the first of AIPs gothic horror flicks of the 60s inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, eight of which were done by Roger Corman, but others were filmed by different directors, like The Conqueror Worm (1968), aka Witchfinder General, and The Oblong Box (1969). Others were Poe-ish in ambiance, yet had nothing to do with the works of Poe, like Corman & Coppolas The Terror (1963).

Speaking of which, most of these flicks didnt follow Poes stories/poems very clos...