{"id":3520,"date":"2013-08-28T00:56:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/?p=3520"},"modified":"2013-09-05T06:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T05:34:00","slug":"the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2013\/08\/28\/the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fall of the House of Usher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The first of Roger Corman&#8217;s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, <i>The Fall of the House of Usher<\/i> features an iconic performance by Vincent Price in the lead role. A guest arrives at the Usher home, where he finds a house literally crumbling apart, in an echo of the mysterious illness that has infected the home&#8217;s inhabitants, including the woman he hopes to marry. <\/p>\n<p>To mark the UK Blu-ray &#038;#38 Steelbook debut of Corman&#8217;s chilling classic (released by Arrow Video on 26 August 2013), Jaime Huxtable imagines a conversation between Roger Corman and Edgar Allen Poe. <\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/House-of-Usher-Page-1.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3520]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/House-of-Usher-Page-1.jpg?resize=474%2C673\" alt=\"House-of-Usher-Page-1\" width=\"474\" height=\"673\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/House-of-Usher-Page-1.jpg?resize=594%2C844&amp;ssl=1 594w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/House-of-Usher-Page-1.jpg?resize=300%2C426&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/House-of-Usher-Page-1.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3523\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/House-of-Usher-Page-2.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[3520]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/House-of-Usher-Page-2.jpg?resize=474%2C673\" alt=\"House-of-Usher-Page-2\" width=\"474\" height=\"673\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/House-of-Usher-Page-2.jpg?resize=594%2C844&amp;ssl=1 594w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/House-of-Usher-Page-2.jpg?resize=300%2C426&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/House-of-Usher-Page-2.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comic Strip Review by Jaime Huxtable<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"info\">More information on Jaime Huxtable can be found <A HREF=\"http:\/\/jaimehuxtable.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/A>.<\/div>\n<div id=\"expander\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustrator Jaime Huxtable imagines a conversation between the director and the author.<br \/>\n<I><B>Comic Strip Review by Jaime Huxtable<\/B><\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[438,427,317],"class_list":["post-3520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-check-it-out","category-comic-strip-reviews","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-roger-corman","tag-vincent-price"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/purUP-UM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2354,"url":"https:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2012\/06\/26\/cormans-world-exploits-of-a-hollywood-rebel\/","url_meta":{"origin":3520,"position":0},"title":"Corman&#8217;s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel","author":"VirginieSelavy","date":"June 26, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Some years ago, I was invited to write a piece on a cinematic cult hero. 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