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Tonight’s movie watching
Jun. 11th, 2022 10:57 pmMiraculously we managed another film, albeit a short one, the first in the Roger Corman Vincent Price Edgar Allan Poe series of collaborations, The Fall of the House of Usher (1960).
It’s fun, gloriously hammy, and wonderfully garish in colour and themes. But Vincent Price’s acting is really dodgy, and Mark Damon playing the heroic wooer of Madeline Usher delivers a really poor acting performance. On plus Myrna Fahey as Madeline is strong, and the only other cast member, Harry Ellerbe as the butler, is reliable.
But oh it is padded. Not one of the best in the series for me. Though the visuals are superb, especially the looming Usher house. I’d forgotten the psychedelic blue sequence with Usher ancestors.
I do have a soft spot for this film though. Perhaps helped by my descent from a very old Usher family at Melrose! And the ending, once we finally reach it, is rather glorious.
It’s fun, gloriously hammy, and wonderfully garish in colour and themes. But Vincent Price’s acting is really dodgy, and Mark Damon playing the heroic wooer of Madeline Usher delivers a really poor acting performance. On plus Myrna Fahey as Madeline is strong, and the only other cast member, Harry Ellerbe as the butler, is reliable.
But oh it is padded. Not one of the best in the series for me. Though the visuals are superb, especially the looming Usher house. I’d forgotten the psychedelic blue sequence with Usher ancestors.
I do have a soft spot for this film though. Perhaps helped by my descent from a very old Usher family at Melrose! And the ending, once we finally reach it, is rather glorious.