(There are Spoilers) Traveling all the way from Boston to see his future wife, whom he met and fell in love with back in Beantnown, the beautiful Madeline Usher, Myrna Fahey, Philip Wintdrop, Mark Damon, is struck by how unnerving the place, The House of Usher, that Medeline lives in is. Meeting the butler Bristol, Harry Ellerbe, at the door Philip is told to get as far away from Madeline and the House of Usher if he knows what's good for him.
Refusing not to leave without taking Madeline with him Philip is then confronted by her pasty faced brother, some 20 years Madelines senior, the anemic-looking and accident prone Roderick, Vincent Price. Roderick trying to be as civil as possible tells an outraged Philip that Madeine as well as himself are not long for this world together with the house that they live in "The House of Usher". The film then turns out to be a struggle between Philip and Roderick over Madeline. Philip want's Madeline to leave for Boston with him and Rodrick want her to stay with him in the mansion.
It takes a while for the lovesick Philip to realize what's really behind Roberick's obsession in keeping Madeline from leaving him and thus suffer, by being a lost and tortured soul in the outside world, a fate worse then death itself and it has to do with the Usher descendants, which Roderick and Madeline are the only two left. The Usher clan over the last two centuries was made up, for the most part, of scalawags pirates and murders with a few slave dealers thrown in for good measure. The crimes that the Ushers committed against mankind are now about to be avenged and there's nothing that anyone, including Philip Wintrop, can do to stop it.
Spectacular final, with cartoon-like 1960 special effects,has the House of Usher go up in flames when the evil that it represents is put to the torch and plowed underground from above and beyond. Philip blinded by his love for Madeline was just too bind to see what was all around him in the evil House of Usher and it was that revelation, at the very end to the movie, that brought him back to his senses.
"House of Usher" is the movie that really established Roger Corman as a major director of highly successful low-budget films and thus opened the door for him and actor Vincent Price to collaborated in some half dozen low budget horror classics over the next five years. The movie also revived the publics interest in the writings of 19th century American author Edgar Allen Poe. It fact most, if not all, of the films that Roger Corman did together with Vincent Price were in one way or another based on Edgar Allen Poe short stories.
Refusing not to leave without taking Madeline with him Philip is then confronted by her pasty faced brother, some 20 years Madelines senior, the anemic-looking and accident prone Roderick, Vincent Price. Roderick trying to be as civil as possible tells an outraged Philip that Madeine as well as himself are not long for this world together with the house that they live in "The House of Usher". The film then turns out to be a struggle between Philip and Roderick over Madeline. Philip want's Madeline to leave for Boston with him and Rodrick want her to stay with him in the mansion.
It takes a while for the lovesick Philip to realize what's really behind Roberick's obsession in keeping Madeline from leaving him and thus suffer, by being a lost and tortured soul in the outside world, a fate worse then death itself and it has to do with the Usher descendants, which Roderick and Madeline are the only two left. The Usher clan over the last two centuries was made up, for the most part, of scalawags pirates and murders with a few slave dealers thrown in for good measure. The crimes that the Ushers committed against mankind are now about to be avenged and there's nothing that anyone, including Philip Wintrop, can do to stop it.
Spectacular final, with cartoon-like 1960 special effects,has the House of Usher go up in flames when the evil that it represents is put to the torch and plowed underground from above and beyond. Philip blinded by his love for Madeline was just too bind to see what was all around him in the evil House of Usher and it was that revelation, at the very end to the movie, that brought him back to his senses.
"House of Usher" is the movie that really established Roger Corman as a major director of highly successful low-budget films and thus opened the door for him and actor Vincent Price to collaborated in some half dozen low budget horror classics over the next five years. The movie also revived the publics interest in the writings of 19th century American author Edgar Allen Poe. It fact most, if not all, of the films that Roger Corman did together with Vincent Price were in one way or another based on Edgar Allen Poe short stories.