![]() Roderick foresees the family evils being propagated into future generations with a marriage to Madeline and vehemently discourages the union. Madeline's brother Roderick ( Vincent Price) opposes Philip's intentions, telling the young man that the Usher family is afflicted by a cursed bloodline which has driven all their ancestors to madness and even affected the mansion itself, causing the surrounding countryside to become desolate. Philip Winthrop ( Mark Damon) travels to the House of Usher, a desolate mansion surrounded by a murky swamp, to see his fiancée Madeline Usher ( Myrna Fahey). ![]() In 2005, the film was listed with the United States National Film Registry as being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Plot ![]() The film was the first of eight Corman/Poe feature films and stars Vincent Price, Myrna Fahey, Mark Damon and Harry Ellerbe. House of Usher (also known as The Fall of the House of Usher) is a 1960 American horror film directed by Roger Corman and written by Richard Matheson from the 1839 short story " The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe. ![]()
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