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House of Usher

Edgar Allan Poe's demonic tale of The Ungodly... The Evil House of Usher

6.7(387)19601h 19m3

Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Philip Winthrop arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.

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Status
Released
Budget
$270K
Box office
$1.5M
Language
English
  • curse
  • mansion
  • new england
  • old house
  • based on short story
  • 19th century

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Behind the camera

Director

Roger Corman

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremierePalm Springs, California, premiere18 Jun 1960
    • Theatrical (limited)NRLos Angeles, California20 Jul 1960
    • Theatrical (limited)New York City, New York14 Sept 1960
    • PhysicalNR"The Fall of the House of Usher" GoodTimes Home Video #05-04042 [VHS] 85 minutes1 Jan 1993
  • United KingdomGB

    • PremiereDerby 6 Nov 1960
    • Physical12DVD20 Oct 2003
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical124 Mar 1964
    • PhysicalDVD7 Oct 2003
    • Physical12Blu-Ray5 Mar 2024
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1621 Sept 1961
    • PremiereHof International Film Festival22 Oct 2026
  • IrelandIE

    • Theatrical153 Mar 1961
  • ItalyIT

    • Theatrical18 Nov 1960
  • JapanJP

    • TheatricalG23 Sept 1960
  • NetherlandsNL

    • Physical12DVD7 Jan 2004
    • Physical12Blu ray26 Aug 2013
  • PortugalPT

    • TheatricalM/165 Jul 1963
  • SpainES

    • TVAPTA13 Oct 1976
    • TheatricalAPTASubtitled version22 Jul 1983

Frequently asked questions

House of Usher was released on 20 July 1960.

Audience reviews

2
  • J

    John Chard

    4/24/2019

    8/10

    Fissures of concrete and of the mind... Phillip Winthrop has been searching for his missing fiancée, Madeline Usher. Tracking her down to the Usher family castle, he finds that Madeline is held strangely under the spell of her brother Roderick. The house itself also seems to be laden heavy with a mystical sense of dread and impending death. Can Phillip persuade Madeline to leave this crumbling abode? will he himse…

  • W

    Wuchak

    3/22/2022

    5/10

    _**“It’s a mad house, a mad house!”**_ In the late 1830s, a man from Boston (Mark Damon) visits the ancestral manor of his fiancé out in the country (Myrna Fahey), but he finds her curiously ill and her older brother nigh insane (Vincent Price). What’s going on? "House of Usher" (1960) was the first of AIP’s gothic horror flicks of the 60s inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, eight of which were done by Roger Corman, b…

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