Director
Roger Corman
Music (original)
Les Baxter
Cast
Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey
Edition 2000
85'
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1960
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Drama, Horror
‘House of Usher’ is an early Roger Corman classic, richly photographed by Floyd Crosby and featuring one of Vincent Price's finest performances. Benefiting from a well-crafted screenplay by Richard Matheson, Edgar Allan Poe's source-story is transformed into a visual masterpiece of dread and doom. Price's Roderick Usher is both sympathetic and unsavory: he's not so much a monster as someone who has been overwhelmed by his own sense of impending disaster. The film represented a substantial leap for Corman in production values, demonstrating that he could handle more complex films than the throwaway quickies which had dominated his career. (Richard Gilliam)
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Credits
Directors
Roger Corman
Music (original)
Les Baxter
Cast
Vincent Price, Mark Damon, Myrna Fahey
Scenario
Edgar Allan Poe, Richard Matheson
Director of Photography
Floyd Crosby
Editors
Anthony Carras
Producers
Roger Corman
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Countries of production
United States of America
Screenplay based on
"The Fall of The House of Usher" (Edgar Allan Poe)
Year
1960
Filmography
Roger Corman
Five Guns West (1955), Apache Woman (1955), Day the World Ended (1955), Swamp Women (1956), Gunslinger (1956), The Oklahoma Woman (1956), It Conquered the World (1956), Not of This Earth (1957), Rock All Night (1957), Teenage Doll (1957), Carnival Rock (1957), Sorority Girl (1957), Naked Paradise (1957), The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957), Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957), War of the Satellites (1958), Machine-Gun Kelly (1958), Teenage Cave Man (1958), She Gods of Shark Reef (1958), I Mobster (1959), The Wasp Woman (1959), A Bucket of Blood (1959), Ski Troop Attack (1960), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), House of Usher (1960), Last Woman on Earth (1960), Atlas (1961), Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Premature Burial (1962), The Intruder (1962), Tales of Terror (1962), Tower of London (1962), The Raven (1963), The Young Racers (1963), The Terror (1963), X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963), The Haunted Palace (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), The Secret Invasion (1964), The Tomb of Ligeia (1964), The Wild Angels (1966), The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), The Trip (1967), Target: Harry (1969), Bloody Mama (1970), Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It (1970), Von Richthofen and Brown (1971), Frankenstein Unbound (1990)