Vincent Price,
Mark Damon,
Myrna Fahey,
Harry Ellerbe,
Bill Borzage
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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 deca... read more
DVD Release Date: June 5, 2001
Stats: 354 reviews
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 c... read more
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. ... read more
It may not be the best Poe tale, but this is a pretty charming maniac story...with so much campy Corman goodness. :)
This is a vastly underseen film, and in my opinion, this film is a Gothic horror classic, and I think this should be on a few more film/media/literature professors' syllabuses. This may be Corman's best work with Price.
Vintage hammy Vincent Price, but spooky enough to make you look behind you while you're watching.
Good Poe adaptation. It is seething with gloominess and degeneration. The movie is not really scary, but it's quite atmospheric and well acted. Thoughtful set design make the house a convincing menace of its own. Vincent Price is quite effective as the disturbed Mr. Usher. Gothic... read more
Pretty good take on Poe's short story by writer Richard Matheson and director Roger Corman, with his eerie and cheap atmosphere. Vincent Price, without his mustache, proves why he is the ultimate horror legend.
This movie is incredible and has it all. Corman and Price were the Burton and Depp of their day.
A highly acclaimed adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's chilling classic tale of bloodlines and madness, excellently-crafted and stylishly directed by Roger Corman. When a young suitor named Philip Winthrop, superbly played by Mark Damon comes to the eerie family house of his lovely b... read more
Creepy horror based on Poe's classsic tale. A young man visits the house of the Usher family to see his wife to be but gets told she cant leave with him and go back to America because she is going to die very soon. The young man witnesses strange goings on in the house as he find... read more
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. Full Review
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. Full Review
A classical vessel for Roger Corman's modernist anxiety Full Review
A superlative Corman/AIP effort and a great beginning to a varying but always interesting series of horror films. Full Review
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.' Full Review
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 overus... Full Review
The sickly decadence and claustrophobia of the Usher household is admirably evoked by Floyd Crosby's 'Scope photography and Daniel Haller's art direction. Full Review
It's one of the better Poe versions made by Corman, if not his best. Full Review
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.
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