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Finally I would read The Fall of the House of Usher in Poe’s words only.įirst of all, it’s much shorter than I expected. It was the perfect occasion to get to the bottom of this Usher mystery. Arrive in the summer of 2015, right in the middle of my haunted house fiction project. For instance, what was up with Madeline Usher, who roamed about the many halls of the Usher estate like a zombie? Why was her brother burying her alive? And how did all this tie into the “house with a consciousness” theme? Something else was lurking in the story haunting the backgrounds of The Usher house.įast forward thirty three years. Those are the worst)Īnd yet, there seemed as if there was more to know. Later on, it would reoccur in such films as The Shining, but ask anyone, the first of anything always is the best! (well ,except heartbreaks over a first love. It was my first experience with such a theme. This “house with a conscious” concept probably impressed me the most. Also – the physical House of Usher, it is alive. The House of Usher was both the physical house and the long lineage of the Usher family (Roderick and Madeline are the last in line). I went back and reread the story in my book and finally I figured out a few things. When the house “dies”, Roderick’s life would end as well. This is because – as the house ails, so does Roderick. This structural renovation – it might add time to Roderick’s life. Unlike the original tale where the narrator’s job is to soothe Roderick’s spirit with companionship, the narrator is sought out so that he can make repairs to the house’s foundation. Nevertheless, I still want to see it.) As with Poe’s version, the story’s narrator comes to visit his ailing friend Roderick Usher at his gloomy house and offer his assistance.

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Looks as if this Vincent Price movie has an entirely different plot than Poe’s story.

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What’s with the house coming down? What is causing “The Fall” of “The House” of “Usher?”Įxploring this issue further, I watched this made for TV movie (As a side note: I remember my older sister’s boyfriend being mad that the movie being shown was NOT the Vincent Price movie version. I then remember the picture of Madeline struggling with him as their huge Gothic house came tumbling down.Įven though this version went easy on the wording, I still didn’t get it. He knew she was coming after for her him, so he gave into anguish and dread.

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He had buried his cataleptic sister Madeline in the family vault, but oh shit! She wasn’t dead and she had broken free from the tomb. I remember the picture of the book’s main character, Roderick Usher, agonizing in his reading chair.

They were small books the left page had the words and the right page contained the pencil-drawn picture.

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I first encountered this story as part of a book series that adapted the classics into easy-to-read books for children. And I am still intrigued by the question. A few weeks ago I finally read the original version. If there are no ghosts, what is haunting the house? Because this question was only vaguely answered in the movies and children’s books that I absorbed, my curiosity about this dreary tale by Edgar Allen Poe grew. What it lacks in story it more than makes up for in atmosphere.At young age, I remember being fascinated by The Fall of the House of Usher because there were no ghosts in this tale, and yet the house is haunted. It's a fine October movie, a gothic story with great atmosphere and an amazing performance from Price.

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The story, a loose adaptation of the Poe story, works fine for what it is, and while it doesn't hit many surprises it hits the point it needs to for this sort of story it doesn't really hit the full creepy factor that Poe managed to get to though, which is probably the films greatest fault. The movie is also beautiful to look at with gothic scenery and lavish sets. His character isn't really a villain, at least he doesn't seem to see himself as one, more just an obstacle to the main character. He also brings a great amount of depth to a fairly simple story. The lines he's reading aren't always amazingly written, but he always makes them sound like sheer poetry. My god, I could watch this guy read the phone book and be completely enthralled. The movies greatest strength, far and away, is the performance of Vincent Price.