Vincent Price is the reason this movie works on any level. He understood the assignment and gave us a reason to lean forward.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 30, 2024

This being Poe, there’s a history of family madness and melancholia, a premature burial, and a sense of doom hanging over this gloomy, crumbling mansion.

| Aug 19, 2023

The story by Edgar Allan Poe has been transferred to the screen with substantial changes... But alteration is a minor matter compared with the producer's frantic reliance on special effects which dismally fail to divert attention from a dull script.

| Aug 17, 2022

Roger Corman, who produced and directed the film for AIP, has handled the production well enough, managing a fair amount of suspense throughout.

| Sep 22, 2021

Price is no stranger to horror pictures. Here he has the chance for some impressive acting... On the side of sanity is dark-haired Mark Damon as Miss Fahey's fiancé. His performance Is unusually striking.

| Sep 22, 2021

Usher has its eerie moments but toward the end gets stewed in its own caldron of juices.

| Sep 22, 2021

The picture is filled with falling chandeliers, fireplaces which try to attack unwanted visitors, coffins with people buried alive, shrieks, screams, seizures and other terrifying matters.

| Sep 22, 2021

Devotees of horror should find final scenes to their liking.

| Sep 22, 2021

Effectively using weird color and dim light, the film generates the right terror atmosphere for the fog-shrouded mansion, with its history of tainted blood, mad ness, evil and retribution.

| Sep 22, 2021

[House of Usher] is garish, long-winded, more silly than gruesome, even with its mad brother and sister and decaying mansion all going full-tilt toward their mutual grisly end.

| Sep 22, 2021

Poe might not recognize this as his creation -- but he would get a bang out of the show!

| Sep 22, 2021

For the latter half of the film Gorman has pulled all stops as the madman is even willing to bury his sister alive to discourage the suitor These sequences are truly terrifying.

| Sep 22, 2021

The color adds to the mood of this eerie tale's settings, the forbidding house, the dank crypt, the fog and decay.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 22, 2021

There are coffins and cobwebs, squeaking doors and moaning voices, plus lurid color, but this adaptation of the Poe classic is a tiresome bore.

| Sep 22, 2021

With Vincent Price holding court in the midst of ancestral mania, a certain amount of the original Poe comes through.

| Sep 22, 2021

A surprisingly creditable production which, by and large, does an adept job of re-creating the same eerie unreality which has made the story a masterpiece of its genre.

| Sep 22, 2021

The gloomy, macabre atmosphere of the melancholy old mansion is transmitted chillingly, and Vincent Price is certainly in the mold of the Poe classic as a white-haired, forbidding and mysterious Roderick Usher.

| Sep 22, 2021

Although a bit too wordy, the abundant gore, photo gimmicks, special effects and unusual theme, help keep the viewer on his seat's edge.

| Sep 22, 2021

The suspense and the horror mount from the moment Damon arrives, puzzled and fearful, at the crumbling and fog wreathed mansion until the hair-raising climax. The picture is good Poe, excellent cinema and a practically certain box office success

| Sep 22, 2021

Roger Corman puts it across with plenty of weird camera effects to match the flavor of Edgar Allan Poe's words.

| Sep 22, 2021