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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER – The Newton Brothers
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
The latest TV mini-series horror effort from director Mike Flanagan is The Fall of the House of Usher, which is ostensibly a modern-day adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s 1839 work of the same name, but which also draws inspiration from and makes reference to numerous other Poe works, including The Raven, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Gold-Bug, and The Pit and the Pendulum, among many others. The show stars Bruce Greenwood as Roderick Usher, the corrupt elderly billionaire CEO of a pharmaceutical company, whose six children – heir Frederick, entrepreneur Tamerlane, surgeon Victorine, gaming mogul Leo, PR head Camille, and socialite Perry – have all died in a span of two weeks. Fearing that his own death is imminent, Usher invites Assistant US Attorney Auguste Dupin – who has been trying to prosecute him for decades – to his crumbling childhood home to finally confess his crimes, reveal how his children died, and so much more. The show is an excellent exploration of power, corruption, and greed, filtered through the deliciously macabre lens of Poe’s horror stories, and was one of the most popular successes of Netflix’s 2023 fall lineup. Read more…
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