The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) Review: A Prismatic Nightmare
If you come to the 1928 version of The Fall of the House of Usher—the American short directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber—expecting a coherent gothic melodrama, you ...
The movie The Fall of the House of Usher was directed by James Sibley Watson.
The Fall of the House of Usher was released in the year 1928.
The Fall of the House of Usher has an IMDb rating of 6.8 out of 10.
The Fall of the House of Usher is a movie from United States.
The Fall of the House of Usher is categorised as Short, Horror in the cult cinema archive at Dbcult.
The Fall of the House of Usher features Melville Webber, Friedrich Haak, Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson.
The screenplay for The Fall of the House of Usher was written by Edgar Allan Poe.
If you enjoy The Fall of the House of Usher, you might also like Striking Models (1920), Trail of the Rails (1920), Kids Is Kids (1920), A Fitting Gift (1920).
Yes, The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) is featured in the Dbcult archive as a curated cult cinema title, known for its Short and Horror qualities.
This 1928 experimental short discards the linear narrative of Edgar Allan Poe’s story in favor of a jagged, hallucinatory visual experience. Rather than a standard retelling, directors James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber use prisms, multiple exposures, and distorted sets to capture the mental collapse of Roderick Usher and the literal decay of his ancestral home. It is less a movie and more a thirteen-minute visual fever dream where shadows and geometry do the heavy lifting that dialogue normally would.
Synopsis
An avant-garde take on Poe's classic story of a traveller taking shelter at a household under a mysterious curse.
