Vincent Price - The Fall Of The House Of Usher(Family Legacy)

Рет қаралды 57,810

15 жыл бұрын

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!

Пікірлер: 67

@TheWitchOvAgnesi 4 жыл бұрын

I love the zest with which Price pronounces "Professional Assassin!"

@Azreal231916 14 жыл бұрын

Vincent Price has hands down the most beautiful voice ever

@morbius109 10 ай бұрын

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.

@videomaniac108 12 жыл бұрын

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.

@landofthesilverpath5823 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@dergluckliche4973 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@morbius109 10 ай бұрын

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!

@megalon73 Ай бұрын

My is probably Vivian Usher portrait because the darkness in her eyes just shows how evil the usher family is

@GoLion 14 жыл бұрын

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.

@anton1990 12 жыл бұрын

One of the most disturbing, and beautiful movies of all time.

@user-pf7qg9lc6p 4 жыл бұрын

Well. I don't know? but great classic gothic horror movie anyway.

@gpwerner 11 жыл бұрын

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.

@user-pf7qg9lc6p 4 жыл бұрын

One Vincent Price's bests gothic movies! I saw this from VHS in back then.

@tadimaggio 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@GC0077 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@tadimaggio 3 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@midnightteapot5633 2 жыл бұрын

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

@RSEFX 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@jciutube724 Жыл бұрын

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.

@Noobifier145 13 жыл бұрын

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

@GoLion 13 жыл бұрын

@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.

@LS-kg9dq 4 жыл бұрын

The Haunted Mansion at Disney -- the room of pictures from this movie...

@danvanhorne213 8 ай бұрын

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

@WizardOfHumor1989 Жыл бұрын

Captain David Usher: “Aaaaarrya ready kids? I can’t hear yooooouuu!!”

@michaelgonzalez1042 2 ай бұрын

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.

@gpwerner 11 жыл бұрын

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.

@TheAlienFan 13 жыл бұрын

This is one of the creepiest movies I've seen

@paulchristman2456 4 жыл бұрын

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.

@tadimaggio 3 жыл бұрын

One of Edgar Allan Poe's unintended legacies was the presence of the word "tarn" in numerous crossword puzzles.

@AlxFitz 14 жыл бұрын

This is my favourite bit too!

@gpwerner 11 жыл бұрын

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.

@22AH26 13 жыл бұрын

we watched this movie in classs it was awsssome

@cindyk8892 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@tr4ckermusic Жыл бұрын

I just did it:)

@willlyon7129 9 ай бұрын

One of my favorite film adaptations of Poe’s work.

@anibalcesarnishizk2205 2 жыл бұрын

Whoever is proud to have such ancestors?.

@Atombender 13 жыл бұрын

The paintings by Burt Shonberg, I wonder what happened to them.

@m00nracer 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@45dable Жыл бұрын

I read some people took them, one of them, Vincent Price as a fanatic of painting.

@Gus4r4po Ай бұрын

Coming here after watching the Netflix miniseries

@agustinmaruri9079 4 жыл бұрын

Best adaptation ever.

@tulllguy 5 жыл бұрын

great

@sharpasaneraser 14 жыл бұрын

"singular aridity" that's poe to a tee

@briantravelman 14 жыл бұрын

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!

@Summerklae7557 9 ай бұрын

The House burns down

@thetriton95 14 жыл бұрын

un formidable acteur, une très belle série d'adaptations d'edgar allan poe par roger corman

@somberlight 12 жыл бұрын

@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?