House of Usher (1960)

NR07/20/1960Horror, Drama1h 19m
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Edgar Allan Poe's demonic tale of The Ungodly... The Evil House of Usher

Overview

Convinced that his family’s blood is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hell-bent on destroying his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from extending any further. When her fiancé, Philip Winthrop, arrives at the crumbling family estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless lengths to keep them apart.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Vincent Price

    Roderick Usher

  2. Cast 1

    Mark Damon

    Philip Winthrop

  3. Cast 1

    Myrna Fahey

    Madeline Usher

  4. Cast 1

    Harry Ellerbe

    Bristol

  5. David Andar

    Ghost (uncredited)

  6. Cast 1

    Bill Borzage

    Ghost (uncredited)

  7. Mario Bellini

    Ghost (uncredited)

  8. Eleanor LeFaber

    Ghost (uncredited)

  9. Nadajan

    Ghost (uncredited)

_**“It’s a mad house, a mad house!”**_ In the late 1830s, a man from Boston (Mark Damon) visits the ancestral manor of his fiancé out in the country (Myrna Fahey), but he finds her curiously ill and her older brother nigh insane (Vincent Price). What’s going on? "House of Usher" (1960) was the first of AIP’s gothic horror flicks of the 60s inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, eight of which were done by Roger Corman, but others were filmed by different directors, like “The Conqueror Worm” (1968), aka “Witchfinder General,” and “The Oblong Box” (1969). Others were Poe-ish in ambiance, yet had not...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

Budget$270,000.00

Revenue $1,450,000.00

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