Fast Delivery!
Added 11/1/2009
I appreciated the speed with which this item arrived. I ordered something else from a different company the same day and it took three times as long to arrive! Great, new product!
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The Fall of the House of Usher (1960)-Great start to Poe in the 60's!
Added 7/3/2009
I first saw The Fall of the House of Usher when it opened in 1960 in New York. I saw it at the old LUXOR theater in the Bronx and was very surprised with its many production values including a good cast (Vincent Price), beautiful color, lavish sets, and mood, mood and more mood.
This was the first of many American International films to satisfy young horror film fans in the 60's and created some instant demand for Poe among the kids from my neighborhood. Some of us actually started reading Edgar Allan Poe for the first time borrowed from the library rather than Classic Comics. This was a great memory from the early 60's.
The DVD included a very informative commentary by Roger Corman who acknowledged that the Fall of the House of Usher was a low budget movie filmed in two weeks for something like $300,000. Roger Corman stated that he seldom went with the first shot as others have said. He most often went with the second or third take of a scene. He mentioned that this film was very well received in Europe where both he and Vincent Price received several awards.
I never realized that Corman looked into his movies often from the perspective of a Freudian, but he went on about this several times during the commentary. He often referenced art classes he had taken as well as the fact that he had earned a degree in engineering which I did not know, and noted that he probably drew on this to make up set designs which permitted actors to flow freely from one scene to another. He also drew up his own storyboards.
This was one of my first movies in which the "house" was a character that had to be reckoned with. So began my romance with haunted house movies. I really did enjoy this one, and now know a little about the man behind the films.
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Immortal Doom & Gloom
Added 12/25/2007
Not a movie it's possible to criticize. We're all dying, but that's life: diseased, mad, servile and heading straight for the coffin and the crypt. Vincent was a filmic presence beyond price. That voice, that face, that manner: he wasn't acting, he just was. Poe was a true original, and one is left wondering what hell he dredged these visions up from. Corman knew what he was about, even if he didn't follow the story. Suspend everything when watching this. Don't be impatient. Read the other reviews if you need help. Now I know where Francis Bacon got his hideous picture painting portrait style from: Vincent Priceless!
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A Great Atmospheric Film
Added 8/10/2007
The atmosphere in this film is fantastic. The acting grand. While not scary by any means, its got a creepy vibe that grabs hold and brings you along for the ride. Vincent price shows you just why he is one of the elite horror icons. On another note the music is wonderful almost a character on its own.
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A rather boring movie/adaptation despite Vincent Price's brilliance.
Added 5/14/2005
I simply thought that "The Fall of the House of Usher" was rather boring and I found myself dozing off. I thought that "The Pit and the Pendulum" was a much better flick and a much more interesting adaptation. In fact, I was quite disappointed with this adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's brilliant short story "Fall of the House of Usher". While the movie provides a grim atmosphere in accordance with the Poe's story, the movie drags and never really picks up enough steam to keep one's interest...however, I found the actual story written by Poe to be quite interesting and very entertaining...perhaps that is my problem with the movie as it is not nearly as good as the story itself. This movie "The Fall of the House of Usher" could have been much better. Notwithstanding the poor adaptation of Poe's classic story of despair, Vincent Price, as always, was terrific in his role...still, this is not enough to make this a good adaptation. I recommend watching the clearly superior "The Pit and the Pendulum" instead of this flick.
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Fast Delivery!
Added 11/1/2009
I appreciated the speed with which this item arrived. I ordered something else from a different company the same day and it took three times as long to arrive! Great, new product!
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The Fall of the House of Usher (1960)-Great start to Poe in the 60's!
Added 7/3/2009
I first saw The Fall of the House of Usher when it opened in 1960 in New York. I saw it at the old LUXOR theater in the Bronx and was very surprised with its many production values including a good cast (Vincent Price), beautiful color, lavish sets, and mood, mood and more mood.
This was the first of many American International films to satisfy young horror film fans in the 60's and created some instant demand for Poe among the kids from my neighborhood. Some of us actually started reading Edgar Allan Poe for the first time borrowed from the library rather than Classic Comics. This was a great memory from the early 60's.
The DVD included a very informative commentary by Roger Corman who acknowledged that the Fall of the House of Usher was a low budget movie filmed in two weeks for something like $300,000. Roger Corman stated that he seldom went with the first shot as others have said. He most often went with the second or third take of a scene. He mentioned that this film was very well received in Europe where both he and Vincent Price received several awards.
I never realized that Corman looked into his movies often from the perspective of a Freudian, but he went on about this several times during the commentary. He often referenced art classes he had taken as well as the fact that he had earned a degree in engineering which I did not know, and noted that he probably drew on this to make up set designs which permitted actors to flow freely from one scene to another. He also drew up his own storyboards.
This was one of my first movies in which the "house" was a character that had to be reckoned with. So began my romance with haunted house movies. I really did enjoy this one, and now know a little about the man behind the films.
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Immortal Doom & Gloom
Added 12/25/2007
Not a movie it's possible to criticize. We're all dying, but that's life: diseased, mad, servile and heading straight for the coffin and the crypt. Vincent was a filmic presence beyond price. That voice, that face, that manner: he wasn't acting, he just was. Poe was a true original, and one is left wondering what hell he dredged these visions up from. Corman knew what he was about, even if he didn't follow the story. Suspend everything when watching this. Don't be impatient. Read the other reviews if you need help. Now I know where Francis Bacon got his hideous picture painting portrait style from: Vincent Priceless!
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