The Fall of the House of Usher
Filmhouse88 Lothian Road
Sun 4 Oct · 20:15
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Book tickets for two or more of our Halloween films in the same transaction to receive a discount! Screening in celebration of Roger Corman's Centenary. When a beautiful young woman's suitor arrives to ask her hand in marriage, the doors of the mysterious house of Usher fling open and terror begins. It seems the young woman's brother is violently opposed to her planned marriage and resorts to macabre ends to prevent the tainted Usher blood from spreading to future generations. The Fall of the House of Usher is the first of eight Roger Corman films based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe. Many production companies at the time had commisioned Poe adaptations; this one was particularly important to the successes of American International Pictures, as it marked a shift in focus from black-and-white films for double bills to larger-budget colour features. That being said, an entire third of the film's $300,000 budget went directly to leading actor Vincent Price's pockets!
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