The Fall of the House of Usher
The Fall of the House of Usher

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- 73/100 based on 4,248 votes
  • Released: 1928
  • Runtime: 63 mins
  • Director:
  • Studio: Films Jean Epstein
  • Genres: Horror

Allan has a hard time finding the Usher's house, which is known to be cursed... But he is a personal friend of Roderick Usher, who lives with his sick wife Madeline and a doctor. Roderick is painting a portrait of Madeline, but every pose exhausts her. Allan worries more and more...... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Fall of the House of Usher:

Jean Debucourt
Marguerite Gance
Charles Lamy
Fournez-Goffard
Luc Dartagnan
Abel Gance

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Allan has a hard time finding the Usher's house, which is known to be cursed... But he is a personal friend of Roderick Usher, who lives with his sick wife Madeline and a doctor. Roderick is painting a portrait of Madeline, but every pose exhausts her. Allan worries more and more...

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Time Out - 10/10 by Geoff AndrewOne of the most imaginative and entrancing horror movies of the silent era.
Slant Magazine - 10/10 by Ed GonzalezThrough kaleidoscopic composition, Epstein affects Rorschach-like chiaroscuro, every image a dense, sludgy viscera, a looking glass held up to the audience and characters, daring us to pass through.
Parallax View - 10/10 by Sean AxmakerA strange mix of Gothic design, modern austerity, expressionist angles, graceful camerawork and surreal effects, it's an atmospheric classic...
Eye for Film - 8/10 by Jennie KermodeA visually masterful film that very much retains its power today, The Fall Of The House Of Usher introduced many of the tropes of the horror genre.
User Review - 10/10 by Aaron WWhile not as flashy as Griffith's photography in "Birth of a Nation" Epstien made a film that's photography is stark, beautiful, and horrifying all at the same time. Based off of one of Poe's most well-known short stories (and one of my personal favorites) the 1928 version of the film is every bit as intense as the story. It maintains the imagery as Poe's story and gives it to us in spades. This is one of the greatest films of the silent era.
User Review - 10/10 by Jesper JMy expectations were soaring as I pressed play on my DVD-player, and when Epstein's vision came to life I knew this would become one of my favorite movies. But why? Well first of all it opened up the door to a phantasmagorial universe of beauty and gloom, which I have only witnessed in one more movie; namely Vampyr by Carl Th. Dreyer. It is difficult to explain, but the beauty of horror has a dimension which transcends the beauty of the normal world. A beauty trapped inside a nightmare, so to speak. Lady Madeline is the embodiment of this idea, being trapped inside a crypt, buried alive! I will keep on searching for more of these black diamonds, but I fear that I have already found the most precious ones...
User Review - 10/10 by Jonathan SMaybe the best thing I've ever seen. Stunning and surrealist and literary and avant garde and really well-acted and-- I don't know. I just love it.
User Review - 8/10 by Justin LLiked it a lot. Haven't read the short story this was based on, unfortunately. I enjoyed the way that taking Madeleine's life was portrayed, Usher making brush strokes and her standing there, more pale and staggering with every stroke. And the presentation of Usher's anxiety, with the clock going on and on, relentlessly. Amazing atmosphere.
User Review - 8/10 by Greg DGroundbreaking experimental film that perfectly captures the fevered delirium of Poe's literature.
User Review - 8/10 by Ted Wthis is a great silent film with good camera work and really creepy moments also its one of the first movies to use the cursed house theme 8\10

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