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Summary: THE FALL OF ACTING COMPARED TO NOW!!!!
Review: The story and plot was great!!! It had great storyline and the actual story was marvelous. There were some bad parts to this movie even so. I think the acting was just ok, partly because it was made over 60 years ago. Some of the special effects and props looked so fake. The best part to this movie was the part when Madeline goes mad and comes out of her coffin. SHe has bloody hands and drips a trail of blood up to her brother's bedroom. I like all teh blood on the doorknob. The music also added to the suspense. All in all it was great!!
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Summary: A masterpiece at last made beautiful to look.
Review: This DVD conveys the genius of the filmakers that did it. I had it in VHS pan and scan. Now, with very good quality, the pictorial beauty of the film can be appreciated.As bonus material there is the theatrical trailer, always interesting, and Roger Corman's audio commentary. It is Corman who is at fault. It transpires that he makes up his comments as the film goes along, not having seen the picture for 20 years! This has a certain charm, nevertheless. He gets surprised at how good the movie is -and it is indeed- as a new viewer would. I looked for the Poe cycle touch in recent productions by Corman, in vain. But I really think he should have viewed the movie recently at least once, and even prepared a kind of script. Maybe the comments would have benefited from a dialogued form. This is a masterpiece. Never so low a buget was put to a better use. Compare Corman's movies with other which were made around that time, for example "Jess Franco" rubbish in terror. I recomend this DVD to any terror fan, Price fan, Poe fan, or in general, any cinema buff.
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Summary: Amazing Movie
Review: This is the first film in Roger Corman's famous Edgar Allen Poe adaptations that went so well in the 1960s. Vincent Price starred in nearly all of them. Of the first batch, this is undeniably the best. The DVD features a great audio commentary by Corman himself. The only shame is that so many of our great actors have passed on before these times - imagine Vincent Price doing an audio commentary on this film...oh well.
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Summary: First of the Poe/Corman films
Review: This movie gets off to a slow start but manages to generate plenty of scares and suspense before it's over. I've heard this was a low budget production but there are great sets, lavish costumes, intelligent script and a another scenery chewing performance by Vincent Price. If the budget was low, it was well spent. The story concerns some of Poe's favorite themes including madness, premautre burials, and crumbling castles. Not as scary as Pit and the Pendulum or Masque of the Red Death but this film is still an important part of the Poe/Corman collaboration legacy.
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Summary: No way is this Poe
Review: This movie is perhaps the worst movie based on a book that I have ever seen. The plot is so different from Poe's original story that I barely recognized it. I watched it in school with my class because we read the story, and we were rolling on the floor laughing at the badness! Whose idea is it to constantly swing the camera around the house? What do you mean those people looked dead/dying? I look more dead than that! The house itself looked nothing like the description in the book. Lets have a party in it! It looks a) clean enough, b) cheerful enough, c) pretty enough and d) ready for one! It isn't that horrible if you haven't read the book, but I still don't know how it made top 5 at the box office in 1963.
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Summary: Best of the series
Review: This movis has always been my favorite of the Corman, Poe adaptations. Vincent Price (Roderick Usher) gives a great performance as a man obsessed with not only his own immenent death but that of his sister. A true masterpiece of insanity as only Poe could write it and only Price could act it. I wonder if the fact that Myrna Fahey looks quite like Barbara Steele helped her land the role of Madeline Usher? No matter, she along with the rest of the cast, guide the viewer along a path of true horror. MGM did a wonderful job on the transfer and its nice to see this classic in widescreen.
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Summary: It's by Roger Corman, so it ain't much.
Review: This turkey of a film has everything Corman is famous for. Chessy effects, overacting, and no story what so ever. Scary for it's time, it ain't.
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Summary: Lavish Gothic horror`
Review: This was the first film that Roger Corman made, when he hit upon the idea of adapting the Edgar Allen Poe classics, and it's the best one. Apparently, it was a huge success when first released, and it still retains much of it's power. Vincent Price plays the tormented Roderick Usher, last in the line of a cursed family living in a crumbling mansion. An outsider comes with the intention of marrying his sister, and soon the horrible truth is revealed. Much of the film looks beautiful, colours are deep and lavish, and the set of the house is suitably creepy, with ghoulish portraits of all the hideous Usher ancestors lining the walls. The cast is small, and Price chews his way through his part as ever, with many flowery speeches and gestures, but the film still delivers, especially in the spectacular fiery climax. Obviously, they aren't making them like this any more, and it all looks a bit dated, but as an example of 60's costume horror, it looks great.
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Summary: Usher rocks!!!
Review: Vincent Price at his best!!! I was amazed at his interpretation of Usher. It was very much like the hyper sensitive fellow of Poe's tale!!! The ending was shocking. I recommend this item to everybody. Good acting, very good indeed.
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Summary: classic VINCENT PRICE at its best
Review: Vincent price is the "Lord of Horror" according to me. The Fall of the House of Usher is a classic horror movie that is very enjoyable. A great story, just great. The story is based on an Edgar Alan Poe story. Roger Corman, the director, was the first to bring Poe poem to the silver screen; and here it is! The story pulls you into it and you get a real feeling for the characters. The acting is what it is for that time period; enough said. This is a classic horror film! GET IT AND LOVE IT
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