This time around on Halloween, re-viewing the first of the 1960 AFI/Roger Corman-directed films starring Vincent Price, closely adapted from Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tale of moral and psychological corruption and insane self-destruction. Nothing like a creaky old mansion with a tarn and giant fissure aided and abetted by a psychopathic owner, his cataleptic sister, a useless frail butler, and a vigorous suitor who gets more than he bargained for when he visits his gal to free her from the Usher curse.
A strangely ‘slow’, but well-paced nightmare that bursts open suddenly on the home stretch like Madeline from her coffin. Nice color visuals and sets including the Usher family portrait gallery and Les Baxter’s weird musical score. Not much to be edited here and no character is spared from the disaster that is the last of the Usher family and their house saga.
Still entertaining (with some unintentional humor thanks to the usual Price hamminess) 61 years later. Highly recommended.