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.
"Edgar Allan Poe's demonic tale of The Ungodly... The Evil House of Usher"
Top Billed Cast
Vincent Price
Roderick Usher
Mark Damon
Philip Winthrop
Myrna Fahey
Madeline Usher
Harry Ellerbe
Bristol
David Andar
Ghost (uncredited)
Bill Borzage
Ghost (uncredited)
Mario Bellini
Ghost (uncredited)
Eleanor LeFaber
Ghost (uncredited)
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
J John ChardVerified TMDB Critic
2019-04-24
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 abode? will he himself be at the mercy of Roderick and the Usher curse?
Filmed in glorious CinemaScope with vivid colour photography from Floyd Crosby, based on a story from dark master writer Edg...
W WuchakVerified TMDB Critic
2022-03-22
_**“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 done by Roger Corman, but others were filmed by different directors, like “The Conqueror Worm” (1968), aka “Witchfinder General,” and “The Oblong Box” (1969). Others were Poe-ish i...
