The Fall of the House of Usher
by Roger Corman
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Actor: Eleanor LeFaber, Harry Ellerbe, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey, Vincent PriceDirector: Roger Corman
Cinematographer: Floyd Crosby
Producer: Roger Corman
Editor: Anthony Carras
Producer: James H. Nicholson
Writer: Edgar Allan Poe
Writer: Richard Matheson
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 79 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-06-05
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Fall of the House of Usher
Movie Review: Immortal Doom & Gloom
Summary: 5 Stars
Not a movie it's possible to criticize. We're all dying, but that's life: diseased, mad, servile and heading straight for the coffin and the crypt. Vincent was a filmic presence beyond price. That voice, that face, that manner: he wasn't acting, he just was. Poe was a true original, and one is left wondering what hell he dredged these visions up from. Corman knew what he was about, even if he didn't follow the story. Suspend everything when watching this. Don't be impatient. Read the other reviews if you need help. Now I know where Francis Bacon got his hideous picture painting portrait style from: Vincent Priceless!
Summary of The Fall of the House of Usher
Vincent Price brings a theatrical flourish to the role of Roderick Usher, a brooding nobleman haunted by the dry rot of madness in his family tree. This being Poe, there's a history of family madness and melancholia, a premature burial, and a sense of doom hanging over this gloomy, crumbling mansion. Roger Corman sold stingy AIP pictures on the concept by claiming "The house is the monster," or so goes the oft-told story. True or not, Corman (with the help of his brilliant art director Daniel Haller and legendary cinematographer Floyd Crosby) creates an exaggerated sense of isolation and claustrophobia with the sunless forest and funereal fog that holds the house and its inhabitants prisoner in a land of the dead. It doesn't quite look real (some of the effects are downright phony, notably the apocalyptic climax), and none of the costars can hold a candle to Price's elegant, haunted performance (often speaking in no more than a stage whisper), but it's a triumph of expressionism on a budget. Shot in rich, vivid color and CinemaScope, from a literate script by genre master Richard Matheson, this is stylish gothic horror in a melancholy key. It was such a success that Corman reunited his core group of collaborators for the follow-up The Pit and the Pendulum the very next year. Corman's "Poe Cycle" was born. MGM's widescreen disc also features commentary by director-producer Corman, his first-ever such contribution. --Sean AxmakerCult Movies DVD Video
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