Review – The Fall of the House of Usher

I could be wrong about this – and goodness knows we’ll never know for certain – but I like to think Edgar Allen Poe would get a real kick out of these old American International Pictures versions of his works. To be sure, they take more than a few liberties with the original stories. But even with the low production values of Roger Corman’s early years, they still manage to capture a fair amount of the gothic dreariness and morbidity that were so essential to Poe’s tales. As usual, Vincent Price heads up the cast, giving life to Richard Matheson’s script about the death-obsessed Usher family and its fiery demise. Mildly amusing