House of Usher (1960)

Corman’s Poe cycle kickstarter is an economical and atmospheric visual feast—decorated with beautiful sets, matte paintings, and gothadelic sequences to die for... plus the murderous house in this gives off major ‘ding dong you’re dead!’ vibes to any visitor stupid enough…

Ian West

97 The perennial 1960s American Gothic setting, and a mood-board for spooky, autumnal vibes. The Usher mansion itself being a monument to the fissures of familial desolation, from mental illness to egomania and the lingering, perpetual stench of Death rising from the…

SilentDawn

I find the atmosphere in this house and the art on the walls really scary in it‘s best way. Also the morbid nature of Roderick Usher played by Vincent Price, who even manages to make a simple "Good morning" sound meaningful, is excellent.

kat🕷

The sheer gaggery of Vincent Price's bleach and tone distracted me from about 90% of the movie

Anna🍓

True gothic magic, anchored by Mark Damon's determinedly bland, clueless horror white guy hero Philip Winthrop, and his physical and emotional opposite, bleach-haired Vincent Price as Roderick Usher, glorying in his own noisy, performative fragility. It's wonderful to watch…

sakana1

Such a blast of decadence. One can complain of House of Usher dramatic limitations, the young couple is certainly weak and generic, but that misses the film central point. Price is here a mix of master of cerimonies and subject matter, the film is about aristrocacy rotten…

Filipe Furtado

The first of what would become many more colorful, cinemascope post-Hammer old-school horror retelling collaborations between legendarily swagged out screen creep Vincent Prince, economical B-movie maestro Roger Corman and the Gothic tales of Edger Allen Poe (which I assume…

Josh Lewis

17th Review for The Collab Weekly Movie Watch Some actors have a natural talent for playing a specific type of character on film. Unlike some people who dislike becoming being typecast, others like Vincent Price seem to relish it. Indeed, it is obvious almost…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

"If house dies, I shall die with it" Such a great adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic with the same name. It truly has all the traits of gothic aesthetic including: creepy mansion, mysterious guy, tainted bloodline and dream sequences. I admit, the…

Caroline