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The movie leads up to a spine-tingling finale that's as intense and scary a climax as anything I've seen.
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But it may be too late, as Madeline is already showing signs of flipping out, and Roderick has some pretty twisted ideas of how to stop that from happening. Roderick forbids it, believing he and his sister should die together, thus ending the Usher line of insanity. Madeline's fiance Philip (Mark Damon) comes to the house to claim Madeline as his wife. Poe, creates confusion between the living things and inanimate objects by doubling the physical house of Usher with the genetic family line of the Usher family. The Gothic style of the building adds to its horror and so does the strange illness of Usher who is afraid of anything and tries to bury his twin sister alive (Hustis, 3). Whether this is a physical or psychological anomaly is never confirmed. On arriving at the very House of Usher, the narrator is taken aback by the dark and sad look the house has. He also suffers from hyper-sensitivity, and must have quiet, dim light, soft clothing and bland food, otherwise he suffers extreme pain. Vincent Price turns in one of his finest performances as Roderick Usher, a man who is glad that he and his sister, Madeline (the wonderful Myrna Fahey) are the last of their bloodline, as he believes the family is doomed to all eventually go mad. Poe's deranged sense of dread and sardonic humor are all here, in every shot. No one but the team of Corman and writer Richard Matheson could pull it off like this. The movie is fairly faithful to the story, but extremely faithful to the tone of Poe's writing. It's hard to pick one of Corman's Poe adaptations as the best, but this, the first, might be it. Roger Corman's brilliant adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's chilling tale is one of the greatest achievements in cinematic horror. I don't believe in the sins of the fathers being visited upon the children. Usher, I don't see that this has anything to do with Madeline and myself. Captain David Usher: smuggler, slave trader, mass murderer. Vivian Usher: blackmailer, harlot, murderess, she died in a madhouse.
Bernard Usher: swindler, forger, jewel thief, drug addict. Roderick Usher: Anthony Usher: thief, usurer, merchant of flesh. And the land withered as before a plague. And the lakes and ponds became black and stagnant. Roderick Usher: And then something crept across the land and blacked it. Philip Winthrop: Why do you tell me these things? Animals came to its bank, trustingly, to drink. At that time this water was clear and fresh. There were trees and plant life, flowers. Earth yielded her riches at harvest time. Once this land was fertile, farms abounded. Roderick Usher: Last night you asked me about the singular aridity of the land around this house.
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