House of Usher1960

Name: House of Usher
Genre: Gothic, Supernatural, Psychological, Classic Monsters
Released: 1960-07-20
Rating: 7

“Edgar Allan Poe's demonic tale of The Ungodly... The Evil House of Usher”

Directed by Roger Corman

7.0

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 6.9Rotten Tomatoes 83%Metacritic 75TMDB 6.7

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Year

1960

Runtime

79 min

Box Office

Budget

$270,000

Revenue (worldwide)

$1,450,000

🏆 3 wins total

The premise

Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Philip Winthrop arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.

Horror Vault's take

In the fog-shrouded halls of a crumbling New England mansion, the last scion of a doomed bloodline wages a desperate, obsessive campaign to keep his sister from marrying — convinced that their family's ancient evil must die with them. Vincent Price delivers a mesmerizing, nuanced performance as Roderick Usher, a man whose genteel manner barely conceals something far more dangerous. Director Roger Corman's adaptation of Poe's classic tale is a sumptuous exercise in Gothic atmosphere, trading shock for slow-burn psychological dread. The decaying estate itself becomes almost a living character, mirroring the rot festering within the family it shelters.

Content: Themes Of Psychological Manipulation, Depictions Of Entombment, Peril And Implied Violence