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Madeline's brother Roderick opposes Philip's intentions, telling the young man that the Usher family is afflicted by a cursed bloodline which has driven all their ancestors to madness and even affected the mansion itself, causing the surrounding countryside to become desolate. The storyline, as recounted by Wikipedia: "Philip Winthrop travels to the House of Usher, a desolate mansion surrounded by a murky swamp, to see his fiancée Madeline Usher. The rest of the cast includes Mark Damon as Philip Winthrop, Myrna Fahey as Madeline Usher, and the butler, Bristol played by Harry Ellerbe.
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The screenplay was written by Richard Matheson, American genre novel and screenwriter, who also wrote episodes of the Twilight Zone TV series, and whose many titles you will recognize either as films you’ve seen or books you’ve read, including: The Shrinking Man, Hell House, I Am Legend (short story), A Stir of Echoes, What Dreams May Come, Steel ( Real Steel), Somewhere in Time, and many more. The Fall of the House of Usher starred Vincent Price, as did almost all of the other films of the Corman-Poe cycle, even the “honourable mentions” (which are considered by some to be a part of the cycle, but aren’t necessarily based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and are therefore not “official”).
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The sets and special effects were often reused in subsequent movies (for example, the burning roof of the Usher mansion reappears in most of the other films as stock footage), making the series quite cost-effective.” The success of House of Usher led AIP to finance further films based on Poe's stories.
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Corman convinced the studio to give him a larger budget than the typical AIP film so he could film the movie in widescreen and color, and use it to create lavish sets as well.
It was a true delight to work with them both, and I really hope I’m fortunate enough to do so again.According to Wikipedia, "The original idea, usually credited to Corman and Lou Rusoff, was to take Poe's story The Fall of the House of Usher, which had both a high name-recognition value and the merit of being in the public domain, and thus royalty-free, and expand it into a feature film. Oh, and they say “never meet your heroes”, but I’d add “unless your heroes are and who are just as awesome as you hope and then some. It's been a privilege to work with some wonderful collaborators, actors, directors, storytellers, crew, family and friends for so long, over THIRTY-FOUR EPISODES of television – the most difficult and rewarding work of my life. Three of those shows were produced during the pandemic, amid ever-shifting safety protocols designed to keep our huge casts and crews safe.
BLY MANOR, MIDNIGHT MASS, MIDNIGHT CLUB & HOUSE OF USHER were each profoundly challenging. We made 4 series in 3 years, only taking a short break for the COVID lockdown in early 2020. I've worked in Vancouver almost nonstop since BLY MANOR in 2019. “A few minutes ago we wrapped production on THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, closing a huge chapter of my life. Despite this happening in April after filming had been underway for some time, it seems that since then things have moved along at a fair pace, and as Flanagan said in a Twitter post, what he has achieved in the end is four series made over three years despite everything. After a pause in the shooting schedule, it was announced that Langella’s role as Roderick Usher was going to be recast, and the part was taken over by Bruce Greenwood. The success of the likes of The Haunting of Hill House and Midnight Mass has ensured that Flanagan’s relationship with Netflix continues to bring more new horror shows to the platform, and latest mini-series once again brings back some of the writer/director’s frequent collaborators including Carla Gugino, Carl Lumbly, Rahul Kohli, Henry Thomas, and Kate Siegel.Īlthough production on the series kicked off in January, Fall of The House of Usher hit a massive stumbling block due to allegations of misconduct against lead actor Frank Langella. Mike Flanagan’s latest Netflix series, Fall of The House of Usher, hasn’t had the easiest of filming runs, but it looks like the horror series based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe has wrapped.
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