HOUSE OF USHER

Eight times, cult director Roger Corman drew on the work of American horror writer Edgar Allan Poe. His very first adaptation was House of Usher (based on the short story The Fall of the House of Usher), set in the 19th century, about Philip Winthrop, who is engaged to Madeline Usher, a young woman from an apparently cursed family. Her brother Roderick—who looks like a living corpse—tries to make this clear to Philip. The eerie, yet at times also humorous, House of Usher is widely regarded as one of the highlights of the prolific Roger Corman’s body of work.