Vincent Price - The Fall Of The House Of Usher(Family Legacy)
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- čas přidán 11. 10. 2009
- This is one of my favorite scenes from the film The Fall Of The House of Usher. Vincent Price reveals the twisted and psychotic legacy of the Usher family. If you've never read the book or seen this film, please do so!
The film is available from the MGM Midnite Movies library on DVD! - Krátké a kreslené filmy
Vincent Price has hands down the most beautiful voice ever
I love the zest with which Price pronounces "Professional Assassin!"
The way Roderick turned and looked at Winthrop at 3:08 and said, “Harlot, murderess…she died in the madhouse.” always makes my skin crawl. With that singular, elegant voice of his, Vincent Price could read the phone book and scare the hell out of you. Truly the man was a treasure, a brilliant actor whose likes will never be seen again.
The film adaptations of these classic Poe short stories starring Vincent Price are pure gems. Do read the stories by Poe at some point to fully appreciate Poe's genius in this particular literary form.
They used to have marathons of these on an old cable horror Channel. Used to watch them after school.
I love how the evilness of the house is so great, it poisons the land around it.
The family portraits are by the late influential L.A.artist, Burt Shonberg, who died too young. The ones of Francis and Bernard are my favorites.
Those portraits are indeed eerily beautiful. Sadly their whereabouts are unknown. There was a rumor the portrait of Captain David Usher was gifted to Vincent Price after filming was completed, but this is unsubstantiated. I’d certainly like to know what became of them!
My is probably Vivian Usher portrait because the darkness in her eyes just shows how evil the usher family is
One of the most disturbing, and beautiful movies of all time.
Well. I don't know? but great classic gothic horror movie anyway.
I agree. Eventhough some of the "dead" special effects makeup is dated, the movie still holds a richness flavor to it. It's like watching a painting in motion.
If I were Winthrop, I'd be a lot more worried about the fact that the woman I was in love with was the sister of the utterly strange guy telling me all this than I would be by her being the descendant of the people in those paintings.
He was a fool. He was very arrogant in thinking that he could "rescue" her from her bloodline. Madeline was doomed at birth. Roderick was not a bad person, he warned him and it was out of concern...he was ashamed of his family. I felt bad for him.
@@GC0077 You're correct about both Madeline and Roderick being doomed from the outset. (In Poe's story, the narrator -- never named -- is an old friend of Roderick's, who has come to the Usher mansion in response to a plea from Roderick for some sort of "help", of an unspecified nature. There is no love interest, unless you count a suggestion of incest between the two Usher siblings).
For me, the most interesting thing about many of Poe's stories is that they are mood pieces more than short stories in the usual sense, perhaps a reflection of Poe's opium addiction.. ("Ligeia" is perhaps the most extraordinary example of this technique; George Bernard Shaw called it "unequalled in world literature.") What Baudelaire was doing in poetry, and Blake in painting, Poe did in language during the same period. When a writer can create on this level, opium is almost redundant.
One Vincent Price's bests gothic movies! I saw this from VHS in back then.
Winthrop says to Usher " Even if this house were full of evil ,Madeline is not , nor for all of your talk are you" then ten seconds later he says ' Ill tell you what is evil in this house sir , YOU "!!! hahaha
Because Usher, finally, is not accepting the escape to normalcy Winthrop is trying to hand to him, so Winthrop realizes THIS is an evil, THIS is a reality.
Big-time props here to the equally immortal Richard ("I Am Legend") Matheson. This family history and flashback sequence is entirely his creation as screenwriter of this film. None of it was in the original Poe short story.
The storm had grown in intensity, and for an instant, the night flashed bright with lightning. I looked up and saw that the moon was blood red. I ran across the bridge and looked back. At that moment, i saw the walls of the mansion split along the zig zag crack. Then, the dark waters of the moat swallowed up the stones of the HOUSE OF USHER
I remember watching this movie on TV 20 Thriller Double Feature that aired Saturday afternoons in the 80s. A true Horror Classic and Vincent Price will always be missed. Rest in Peace.
The Haunted Mansion at Disney -- the room of pictures from this movie...
This is one of the creepiest movies I've seen
Captain David Usher: “Aaaaarrya ready kids? I can’t hear yooooouuu!!”
@SodCorley
IMO, I dunno if I would ever want these movies to ever be remastered or enhanced. I kinda like the the grain and the imperfections of these movies. Kinda like old LP's or old paintings.
I still watch my old vhs copy of Beauty and The Beast by Disney because I cannot stand how the newer remastered versions look. They appear to plasic and bright.
But alas, as long as these films don't get lost in the shuffle I will be happy no matter how they are preserved.
Saw this as one of five horror flicks for one admission at my local theater when I was young in the 60s had horrible nightmares that night
R.I.P. Roger Corman and Mark Damon, please spread some love and heartfelt condolences to their families. May they both join Vincent Price in heaven.
One of my favorite film adaptations of Poe’s work.
BTW, my favorite scene in this film is the dream sequence--again, not in the original Poe story. I think that Matheson's adaptation (and Les Baxter's signature score) are the primary reasons why this version has never had close to an equal.
The film that brought class and prestige back to American horror cinema. I think that one of the things that make it work so well is that it's almost believable, like the story itself. The scene in the crypt in which a coffin falls and shatters open could have happened in real life-it might have resulted from the ledge that it rested upon giving way because of gradual moisture damage. Premature interment was a very real possibility in the nineteenth century. If the chains and lock around the casket were old and rusted, Madeline could have broken them open in a frenzied adrenaline fueled panic. The harrowing experience would have been enough to push anyone over the edge mentally. Finally, the mansion could have easily caught fire and burned down completely as the result of just one fallen lit candle igniting a curtain or a piece of furniture. Corman may have intended for the final shot of the remnants of the house sinking into the foggy mire to be symbolic.
An excellent gothic horror classic.
One of Edgar Allan Poe's unintended legacies was the presence of the word "tarn" in numerous crossword puzzles.
This is my favourite bit too!
we watched this movie in classs it was awsssome
We did too. 8th grade. I remember it like yesterday. I got the mumps the next day and missed 3 weeks of school with them both sides.
I just did it:)
I'm not shortchanging Vincent Price's work here at all, as it really exercises even his horror acting chops. He's just got so much else helping him in this film that even Roger Corman can't bring it down.
Whoever is proud to have such ancestors?.
The paintings by Burt Shonberg, I wonder what happened to them.
apparently no one knows. I head that Vincent Price was gifted the one of Captain David Usher by Shonberg, but dont have anything to substantiate that.
I read some people took them, one of them, Vincent Price as a fanatic of painting.
Best adaptation ever.
Coming here after watching the Netflix miniseries
great
"singular aridity" that's poe to a tee
un formidable acteur, une très belle série d'adaptations d'edgar allan poe par roger corman
@1rammstein21 anyone but burton, that guy isn't able to direct classic, proper horror. he has a strange fixation towards his own "burtonisms" which would ruin the spirit in an instant. depp however, it might work. does any of his work have slow descent to madness?
Man! Where's the ending! We watched this in English class yesterday, but the bell rang before we finished the movie, and I wanna know how it ends!
The House burns down
@1rammstein21 you got a point on sweeney todd.. hmm.. perhaps
Painting by Burt Shonberg.
Where can I watch all of this?
On the TV.
@karma212 ....I was going to retort, but lost the energy...
The house has an evil aura...
@jessecrx how old are you? 12?
Rodrick ist so fürsorglich zu seiner Schwester und sie will dann weg da wäre er mekn Bruder würde ich mich mega freuen
Was Madeline in Zorro? Because I think I saw her in an episode of Zorro! (The Disney one)
Yes she was!
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