The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
A pretty bleak, morbid & loose adaptation of Poe's
House of Usher classic. The Gothic atmospheric settings worked wonderfully; inside the house...the interiors of the walls, the mirrors, the curtains and the painting...all conveyed like the inner world of Roderick...dank, gloomy and decaying. With such nightmarish great visuals the eerie & sad background scores also contributed brilliantly in this total surreal masterpiece from silent era French cinema. But you can't compare it with Roger Corman's version...cause in a cinematic point of view both are extraordinary achievement but completely different than each other as the way they treated the Usher story in their own terms & fashion.
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