1928 · horror · drama · french
The Fall of the House of Usher
Directed by Melville Webber, James Sibley Watson13m1928
Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her nameless traveller fiancé arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.
Our read: The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) reads as a sombre, measured, surreal horror · drama · french entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured horror / drama, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- sombre
- measured
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
- signature
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