The fall of the House Of Usher

This film is about a house and the people in it. The house is in the middle of no-where and is surrounded by mist. A slightly strange is the fact that the house has absolutely no vegetation surrounding it. Siblings called Madeline and Robert Usher live in the house. There is also an inconspicuous butler. Madeline has a fiance called Philip Winthrop, however they have not seen each other for sometime and so Philip decides to pay her a visit. Philip does not know that Madeline has a condition that puts her into a death like state and makes her go crazy. Madeline goes into her death like state and Philip cant find her. Eventually she wakes up and in her insanity and rage she attempts to strangle her own brother and then sets fire to herself and thus burning down the rest of the house.

This film fits into the horror genre because of the strange and scary story line. For example the house being surrounded by mist and the freaky butler that knows everything about everyone. Madeline gets shut inside a coffin and this is quite scary, as she is still alive. The author of the novel is Edgar Allen Poe who is well known for making horror novels. Vincent Price plays the lead roll and he is also very well known for working in the horror genre.

The company that was making this film was American International Pictures who at the time was making a lot of horror. The film used cheap sets and used scenes that had been used in other films, it even used a shot of a house burning down to use when the house burnt down in the film. Roger Corman is a very well known director who has done a lot of Poe's novels.

In this film there a certain things that have become cliches over time, such as the way that the characters are dressed and the look of the house, with it being completely dark and surrounded by mist.

The fact that Vincent Price is in the film is good for the audience because he is very popular with the public and he is very good for the directors because he makes money by being so popular and makes people want to see films that he is in.