[This story contains spoilers for The Fall of the House of Usher.]
With Mike Flanagan’s latest, the Edgar Allen Poe-inspired The Fall of the House of Usher, production designer Laurin Kelsey had a lot of houses on her hands.
The Netflix horror series goes full-tilt into Poe, complete with episode titles referencing one of his notable works, and the main home of the series’ patriarch (played by Bruce Greenwood) being a twist on the one featured in the late writer’s original short story. It also stars Mary McDonnell, Henry Thomas, T’Nia Miller, Samantha Sloyan, Rahul Kohli, Kate Siegel, Sauriyan Sapkota, Kyliegh Curran, Carla Gugino, Carly Lumbly, Zack Gilford and Willa Fitzgerald.
The Fall of the House of Usher follows the lives (and deaths) that surround siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher, the ruthless founders of the Fortunato Pharmaceuticals empire. Literally built on the pain of others, their family’s wealth, privilege and power...
With Mike Flanagan’s latest, the Edgar Allen Poe-inspired The Fall of the House of Usher, production designer Laurin Kelsey had a lot of houses on her hands.
The Netflix horror series goes full-tilt into Poe, complete with episode titles referencing one of his notable works, and the main home of the series’ patriarch (played by Bruce Greenwood) being a twist on the one featured in the late writer’s original short story. It also stars Mary McDonnell, Henry Thomas, T’Nia Miller, Samantha Sloyan, Rahul Kohli, Kate Siegel, Sauriyan Sapkota, Kyliegh Curran, Carla Gugino, Carly Lumbly, Zack Gilford and Willa Fitzgerald.
The Fall of the House of Usher follows the lives (and deaths) that surround siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher, the ruthless founders of the Fortunato Pharmaceuticals empire. Literally built on the pain of others, their family’s wealth, privilege and power...
- 10/21/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One of the great delights of “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Mike Flanagan’s latest (and last) Netflix horror series is seeing truly terrible people get what they deserve, courtesy of Edgar Allan Poe classics. As patriarch (and a Richard Sackler-esque pharmaceuticals CEO) Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood) looks on in increasing horror, his six children are picked off one by one in diabolically twisted — yet easily explained! — ways.
As Ben Travers wrote in his IndieWire review, “‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ channels its mushrooming rage into demonstrable blunt force and a number of grisly kills (not to mention eliciting a pair of juicy performances). The writer-director known for crafting ghostly horror stories that double as empathetic examinations of trauma keeps his latest’s plotting rather straightforward, albeit less poignant and more pissed off. Audiences can sit back and savor each Usher death knowing it’s coming,...
As Ben Travers wrote in his IndieWire review, “‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ channels its mushrooming rage into demonstrable blunt force and a number of grisly kills (not to mention eliciting a pair of juicy performances). The writer-director known for crafting ghostly horror stories that double as empathetic examinations of trauma keeps his latest’s plotting rather straightforward, albeit less poignant and more pissed off. Audiences can sit back and savor each Usher death knowing it’s coming,...
- 10/18/2023
- by Mark Peikert and Jim Hemphill
- Indiewire
Mike Flanagan’s final series for Netflix is “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and it’s available to stream now. The limited eight-episode series is based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and that is reflected in every facet of the series, right down to its production design.
In the series, “Ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege, and power. But past secrets come to light when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman from their youth.”
The Usher family is played by Bruce Greenwood (Roderick Usher), Mary McDonnell (Madeline Usher), Henry Thomas (Frederick Usher), T’Nia Miller (Victorine Lafourcade), Samantha Sloyan (Tamerlane Usher), Rahul Kohli (Napoleon “Leo” Usher), Kate Siegel (Camille L’Espanaye), Sauriyan Sapkota (Prospero “Perry” Usher), Kyliegh Curran (Lenore Usher), and Zach Gilford and Willa Fitzgerald as young Roderick and Madeline respectively.
In the series, “Ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege, and power. But past secrets come to light when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman from their youth.”
The Usher family is played by Bruce Greenwood (Roderick Usher), Mary McDonnell (Madeline Usher), Henry Thomas (Frederick Usher), T’Nia Miller (Victorine Lafourcade), Samantha Sloyan (Tamerlane Usher), Rahul Kohli (Napoleon “Leo” Usher), Kate Siegel (Camille L’Espanaye), Sauriyan Sapkota (Prospero “Perry” Usher), Kyliegh Curran (Lenore Usher), and Zach Gilford and Willa Fitzgerald as young Roderick and Madeline respectively.
- 10/13/2023
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
In cinematographer James Kniest’s eyes, psychology is the hidden element that makes a show like “The Midnight Club” spooky, along with other more obvious ingredients like a haunted hospice house, spiritual and religious symbols, the occult and, of course, the classic jump scare.
“To make things scary, a lot of it is not showing everything and letting things fall off into darkness with maybe areas that you don’t know what might or might not be there,” cinematographer James Kniest told TheWrap in a recent interview.
“I also think that lighting plays a huge role in that. And then sometimes like quick camera moves that reveal something or even orchestrating some blocking where you might see something barely move in the background or maybe even really close in the foreground. Hinting at things but not showing all of them so that people’s minds do a lot of the...
“To make things scary, a lot of it is not showing everything and letting things fall off into darkness with maybe areas that you don’t know what might or might not be there,” cinematographer James Kniest told TheWrap in a recent interview.
“I also think that lighting plays a huge role in that. And then sometimes like quick camera moves that reveal something or even orchestrating some blocking where you might see something barely move in the background or maybe even really close in the foreground. Hinting at things but not showing all of them so that people’s minds do a lot of the...
- 10/25/2022
- by Dessi Gomez
- The Wrap
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