Edgar Allan Poe's demonic tale of The Ungodly... The Evil House of Usher
Convinced that his family’s blood is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hell-bent on destroying his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from extending any further. When her fiancé, Philip Winthrop, arrives at the crumbling family estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless lengths to keep them apart.
- 6.7
- 1960
- Released
- 1h 19m
Vincent Price
Roderick Usher
Myrna Fahey
Madeline Usher
Harry Ellerbe
Bristol
David Andar
Ghost (uncredited)
Bill Borzage
Ghost (uncredited)Mario Bellini
Ghost (uncredited)Eleanor LeFaber
Ghost (uncredited)Nadajan
Ghost (uncredited)Ruth Oklander
Ghost (uncredited)George Paul
Ghost (uncredited)Géraldine Paulette
Ghost (uncredited)Phil Sulvestre
Ghost (uncredited)John Zimeas
Ghost (uncredited)
Released
en
$270,000.00
$1,450,000.00
- #curse
- #mansion
- #new england
- #old house
- #based on short story
- #19th century
Reviews
_**“It’s a mad house, a mad house!”**_ In the late 1830s, a man from Boston (Mark Damon) visits the ancestral manor of his fiancé out in the country (Myrna Fahey), but he finds her curiously ill and her older brother nigh insane (Vincent Price). What’s going on? "House of Usher" (1960) was the first of AIP’s gothic horror flicks of the 60s inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, eight of which were don
Fissures of concrete and of the mind... Phillip Winthrop has been searching for his missing fiancée, Madeline Usher. Tracking her down to the Usher family castle, he finds that Madeline is held strangely under the spell of her brother Roderick. The house itself also seems to be laden heavy with a mystical sense of dread and impending death. Can Phillip persuade Madeline to leave this crumbling