It's interesting that in recent years people have begun looking at Vincent Price's films for American International Pictures as "classics". This really seems to be stretching the term, though I will admit they are often fun to watch but very slight films with pretty low budgets. I see them mostly as time passers. However, of these films this early one is perhaps the best. It's about a man who shows up at his sister's mansion to see her, but is told by her husband that she is dead. While the movie is only superficially related to the Poe story by the same name, it's closer than the later movies based VERY LOOSELY on Poe stories. I give the film high marks for making the absolute most of a low budget and for decent performances and mood throughout. It's worth seeing, but not great.
Review of House of Usher
