![]() ![]() House of Usher may be a slow burn, but it is capped with an impressive conflagration. The permeability of danger expands as the film unfolds. Can he reliably prophecize if his faculties are overloaded? And what are we to make of the way that the house literally trembles? Chandeliers drop from the ceiling skeletons leap from the crypt. Roderick implicitly acknowledges that he – as an Usher – is mad. Yet, there is equal horror in the respective cures proposed – an attempted abortion for Quaife’s fetus euthanasia for Usher’s sister. The difference is, Veronica Quaife was perfectly sane. Matheson’s script is largely faithful to the decrepit, morbid atmosphere and main narrative beats of Poe’s story, although the nameless narrator of Poe’s tale is changed to Philip Winthrop. ![]() Roderick Usher frets over the replication of madness. Roderick’s dread of what might be born from his sister’s womb anticipates Veronica Quaife’s anxiety about her potential fly-fetus in Cronenberg’s The Fly remake. 64 Photos Drama Horror Upon entering his fiance's family mansion, a man discovers a savage family curse and fears that his future brother-in-law has entombed his bride-to-be prematurely. Roderick assures Philip that his ancestor’s morals were equally misshapen. Street Date Aug/ £13.92, or £17.41 (steelbook packaging) Starring Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Harry Ellerbe. 1960 / Color / 2:35 enhanced widescreen / 80 min. The distorted family portraits attest to a deformity of features worsening with each generation. The Fall of theHouse of UsherSavant Region B Blu-ray Review. There is a decay in the mists – a rot persisting in the Ushers in their house. Gradually, Roderick convinces Philip that the sickness in the grove has taken root in the family tree in Madeline. It not Vincent Price in the role of Roderick Usher, the film might lose its grip. House of Usher might be termed a slow burn, 1960s style. If Philip and Madeline wed, the defect will be passed to their children. The same morbidity of the trees infects the Ushers, Roderick insists. Like most older brothers, he’s over-protective. The narrator’s attempts to give cheer to his morbid friend. Roderick lives with his equally sickly sister, Madeline, a cataleptic. The narrator notices a large crack in the wall. ![]() This takes the narrator to a decaying house that shows signs of coming apart. The Usher home is also inhabited by Madeline’s overwrought sibling, Roderick. An unnamed narrator responds to a call for help from his ailing friend Roderick Usher. He calls upon her at her isolated country estate, the House of Usher, situated in a grove of dead trees. ![]()
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