“This film was a gamble for all of us and yet I was prepared to take a gamble because I believed in the works of Edgar Allan Poe,” Price told film historian David Del Valle (in the liner notes for the Shout Factory Blu-ray set The Vincent Price Collection). It was 60 years ago this month that American International Pictures (AIP) released The Fall of the House of Usher (also known as just House of Usher), a film based on the classic 1839 short story by Edgar Allan Poe, produced and directed by a low-budget B-movie specialist named Roger Corman.Ĭorman recruited horror and sci-fi writer Richard Matheson ( I Am Legend) to adapt the Poe tale, while also hiring Vincent Price - already established as a horror star in films like The Fly and House on Haunted Hill - for the lead role (just one of four in the film) as the tormented, doomed Roderick Usher.
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