The Fall of the House of Usher (film)



The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale of the macabre, serves as the foundation for this 13-minute avant-garde film by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber. Startlingly stylized in composition, costume and set design, this version of the horror classic is as much interested in the tale's psychological underpinnings as its haunting story. Filled with innovative editing, lighting and camerawork, Usher appears as modern today as when it premiered at the Film Arts Guild in 1929.

The Fall of the House of Usher was added to the National Film Registry in 2000.

Watch it at the National Film Preservation Foundation's website.