A traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants, Roderick and Madeline Usher, are living under a mysterious family curse: Roderick's senses have become ...
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Herbert Stern | ... | Roderick Usher |
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Hildegarde Watson | ... | Madeline Usher |
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A traveller arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants, Roderick and Madeline Usher, are living under a mysterious family curse: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic. As the visitor's stay at the mansion continues, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax. Written by Jean-Marc Rocher <rocher@fiberbit.net>
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Country:
USARelease Date:
20 September 2011 (Greece) See more »Also Known As:
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Runtime:
(2000 alternate)Sound Mix:
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Black and WhiteAspect Ratio:
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In 1972, Film Archives Company copyrighted a version with a music score, presented by Raymond Rohauer.- In 2000, the National Film Preservation Foundation issued a 4-disk boxed DVD containing this movie with a music score, and running 13 minutes. This film was preserved by the George Eastman House.
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The Fall of the House of Usher has suffered a rather bad fate as a film, due to numerous problems.
Not due to the fact that it's a bad film, on the contrary, but due to it's name. In the same year there was also a french full-length with the same name by Jean Epstein. And there are countless other recreations of this of the Fall in the House of Usher story.
This film succeeds as a silent short expressed mostly through visuals and mood. It's not so much horror as it as an excuse to show surrealist images of words floating, off camera angles and general dillusion.
The only thing that may put people off about this short is that it's clearly more about lush enchanting visuals then it is as a good representation on the Edgar Allan Poe piece.
This is a fine silent short, and is highly recommended to fans of early silent expressionist cinema.