{"id":36281,"date":"2024-07-25T07:42:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T11:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36281"},"modified":"2025-08-31T22:02:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T02:02:35","slug":"house-of-usher-aka-the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-1960-directed-by-roger-corman-written-by-richard-matheson-starring-vincent-price-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36281","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;House of Usher&#8221; aka &#8220;The Fall of the House of Usher&#8221; (1960)\u00a0directed by Roger Corman, written by Richard Matheson, starring Vincent Price \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z072524zview_houseofusher.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>House of Usher <\/i><\/b>aka<i><\/i><b><i> The Fall of the House of Usher (1960)\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director: <strong>Roger Corman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Richard Matheson <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/46eMyR7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>&#8220;The Fall of the House of Usher&#8221;<\/em><\/a> by<strong> Edgar Allan Poe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Vincent Price, Mark Damon<\/strong><strong>, Myrna Fahey <\/strong>and <strong>Harry Ellerbe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>He buried her alive&#8230; to save his soul!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Philip Winthrop (Damon) travels to the remote Usher estate.\u00a0 Philip intends to leave with his fianc\u00e9e Madeline Usher (Fahey) so they can be married.\u00a0 Madeline&#8217;s brother Roderick (Price) warns Philip that the Usher bloodline is cursed.\u00a0 All of the Usher ancestors went mad and committed evil deeds.\u00a0 Roderick wants the Usher bloodline to end.\u00a0 If Philip and Madeline marry, Roderick feels that the curse will continue.<\/p>\n<p>Both Philip and Roderick are determined to have their way&#8230; only one will.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prior to <em>House of Usher<\/em>, American<em> International Pictures (AIP) <\/em>focused on low budget black and white films destined to be second (or third) features at drive-ins.\u00a0 The demand for these type of films was in decline so AIP rolled the dice.\u00a0<em> House of Usher<\/em> was given a higher budget and made in color.\u00a0 The gamble paid off.<\/p>\n<p><em>House of Usher<\/em> was the first of eight films based on Edgar Allan Poe short stories directed by Roger Corman.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><i><b>House of Usher aka The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) <\/b><\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\">rates 2 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_d.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z072524zview_houseofusher2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"347\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House of Usher aka The Fall of the House of Usher (1960)\u00a0 Director: Roger Corman Screenplay: Richard Matheson based on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,52,53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39841,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36281\/revisions\/39841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}