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Auguste interrupts because this night, in particular, is very special. It’s the start of everything and there have been countless rumors regarding it. For now, Roderick just lets Auguste know that he will tell him everything, but he assures Auguste that starting at the beginning is a necessity as every part of his story is important to understanding the whole picture. They’re currently testing on chimpanzees but hope to move onto human trials soon. As the narrator reads of the knight's forcible entry into the dwelling, he and Roderick hear cracking and ripping sounds from somewhere in the house. When the dragon's death cries are described, a real shriek is heard, again within the house.
Madeline Usher (Mary McDonnell)
Verna tells the siblings that she can guarantee they’ll be running Fortunato, their family will want for nothing, and they’ll never face legal trouble if they take her deal. Madeline would have to die with him as well, as they came into the world together so they have to go out the same. Following Tammy’s death, Frederick is now the swing vote for the company. Madeline tells Arthur that she’s the one who should be the new CEO; they can use her algorithm and rebrand Fortunato as a tech company.
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One of the other storylines in this episode revolves around Madeline, Roderick, and Arthur digging into the identity of this mysterious woman who keeps popping up everywhere. There’s a hilarious bit where Arthur shows Roderick security footage from the night Camille died and asks if he recognizes the security guard. Roderick wants him to enhance it, but as Arthur points out, that’s really only a thing on television. He tells Auguste that to understand his story, he needs to get the entire picture, going back to the time when he and Madeline were just children. Frederick Usher is Roderick’s eldest son and many of his siblings refer to him as “Froderick” because of his obsession with being like their father. He’s married to a woman named Morelle (Crystal Balint) and they have a daughter named Lenore who Roderick is quite fond of.
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Back to the ’70s, the seventh episode of The Fall of the House of Usher begins with a flashback scene of a younger Roderick and Auguste rehearsing how it’ll go when Roderick goes on the record to speak out against Fortunato. In the present day, Auguste tells Roderick that he really only trusted him because Annabel was such a good person. Lenore watches a movie with her mom and to her surprise, her mom speaks and tells Lenore that she loves her. Lenore goes to see her dad who’s bowling in their house, asking if a doctor is ever coming. Frederick basically blows her off, however, saying that Morrie is doing well and the doctors will come if they need to.
And so Flanagan does what anyone starting their story here would do—brings it back to the beginning, a true "record scratch" moment that trusts we won't remember what was flashed before our eyes—and will be shocked along the way all the same. The pacing can be slow at times, and some of the subplots feel underdeveloped. Additionally, some of the horror elements may be too tame for some viewers.
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The vision ends and Roderick tries to relieve Auguste of his burden, saying no one died because he lied about there being an informant. Over the course of two weeks, all six of Roderick’s kids have perished, so Prospero (Sauriyan Sapkota), Camille (Kate Siegel), and Napoleon (Rahul Kohli) died the week before and now they’re burying the final three. Even though all of the deaths are quite strange, investigations have revealed that none were related, but Roderick believes differently. It all ties back to a mysterious woman named Verna (Carla Gugino), who was present at every death. In Usher, we find an interestingly constructed story that begins, in a way, at the end.
Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood)
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER is an eight-episode horror series loosely based on the Edgar Allan Poe story of the same name, from writer-director Mike Flanagan (The Haunting of Hill House, The Midnight Club). As the series begins, we meet mega-rich pharmaceutical magnate Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood, The Resident) at the end of his long and luxurious life. Usher, who has just buried the last of his six adult children, sits by the fireplace with his former nemesis, prosecutor C. As each episode progresses, we learn more about Roderick's connection to the mysterious, shape-shifting woman (Carla Gugino, Gerald's Game) who has been shadowing his visions as she doles out ghastly punishments to his progeny. It recounts both the rise to power of Roderick Usher, the powerful CEO of a corrupt pharmaceutical company and his sister Madeline Usher, the firm's genius COO, and the events leading to the deaths of all six of Roderick’s children.
Whether or not you find this show scary is subjective and depends on your tolerance for horror. However, I wouldn’t consider The Fall of the House of Usher a scary show in my opinion. With characters constantly dying in brutal ways, it can create a sense of unease and tension. The constant showing of dead bodies and jump scares can also be unsettling.
The Black Cat
He believed it would make them stronger, but he admits to being wrong. Though he tries to open up about needing her, there’s something wrong with Victorine. He asks her to turn down the music and when she does, they both hear the clicking noise.
He’s clearly still very hurt about the fact that Morrie lied the night she went to Perry’s party, and he’s not going to let it go. Young Roderick and young Auguste meet for the first time via flashback. Auguste shows up at Roderick’s door because he found his signature on a bunch of suspicious paperwork regarding human trials. Roderick claims he has no idea what Auguste is talking about, but Auguste can sense that he and his wife are struggling, living hand-to-mouth. At this point, they have Tamerlane and Frederick and are struggling to make ends meet.
The rest of the family regroups to discuss how they’re going to spin this latest disaster. Seeing as Camille is the family’s go-to PR person, she explains the approach they’re going to take to pain Prospero as a charitable Usher family prince and help gain sympathy for the family amid the ongoing trial. The Fall of the House of Usher‘s premiere episode is mostly about setting up what we’ll be seeing throughout the rest of the season, as each episode (mostly) focuses on one sibling and how they end up dead. A television adaptation was produced by ATV for the ITV network in 1966 for the horror anthology series Mystery and Imagination. In the Roger Corman film from 1960, released in the United States as House of Usher, Vincent Price starred as Roderick Usher, Myrna Fahey as Madeline and Mark Damon as Philip Winthrop, Madeline's fiancé. The film was Corman's first in a series of eight films inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Chapter I is by far the strangest of the bunch, which centers around a family finally moving into their dream home, but their home isn’t all it appears to be. The plot of the first storyline has potential, but it never fully materializes, and the quality goes downhill even moreso in the last two chapters. Netflix’s The House is a gorgeous creation in stop motion animation, yet it lacks substance. The story explicitly ties the physical House of Usher to the Usher lineage, stating that the peasants in that domain use the phrase “House of Usher” for both. However, the connection between the house and the family runs deeper than linguistic shorthand.
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