TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

jacobjohntaylor1 This is one of the best horror films I have seen. I do not know why people do not like like. This is a very scary movie. It has a great story line. It also has great acting. It is very underrated.

charlytully On July 13, 2008, "scpenn" wrote here that THE HOUSE OF USHER (2006) "was like something out of the far left wing of the democratic (sic) party." At first I was mystified by this remark, as I had not observed a political bent to the left OR right on my initial viewing. Fortunately, I hadn't yet returned this flick to the video store, so I was able to watch it again at 1/16th speed. In so doing, the following amazing plot twists were revealed in a nefarious series of subliminal images and subtitles:1)A draft-dodging coke-head buffoon uses a soon-to-"suicide" Enron bag-man from the state that lost the Alamo to keep-the-slaves slaves (!) to bribe the U.S. Supreme Court for a White House apartment. 2)Promising to be "uniter-not-a-divider," this bush-leaguer unites the Confederates, Nazis, and House of the Rising Sun under one bloody flag to take all the blue-state middle class jobs and tax dollars and give them to red state billionaires and foreign sheikhs. 3)Hearing his oil buddies were upset at making profits in only the billions when gasoline sold for 89 cents a gallon under his predecessor, the poison shrub engineers a series of catastrophes which boost oil firm executive compensation alone into the billions, while bringing down the U.S. economy on five-buck-a-gallon gas and getting more than a million people killed, including 10,000 Americans. Viewed at this speed, USHER is the most chilling horror flick ever!

catfish-er *** CONTAINS SPOILERS *** The main character serves as the narrator in the Poe story. Unfortunately, in that short story, the character is a man; but, in this version of the story, the role is given to a young woman. She is a former lover of Roderick, instead of a childhood friend.Except for that one difference; and, a few modern contrivances (like the isolation tank), the story is incredibly faithful to the Poe story… well, and the family curse is changed here too.But, more on that later.The role of the narrator is to act as an observer through which we see the story unfold. This helps us build empathy with the character, without all the messy foreshadowing and flashbacks that would have happened, had we seen the movie through Roderick's or Maddie's eyes.Given that perspective, I think the acting is very good; and, I think the casting was brilliant. Austin Nichols plays the role of Roderick to a tee – embodying the twisted perceptions, hyper-sensitivity (suffering from Neurasthenia), and photo sensitivity brilliantly. In the Roger Corman version; which I think is the definitive telling of the Poe story, Vincent Price never could have (nor should have) done as well.And, Izabella Miko is an absolute delight. Not just for the eyes, because there's plenty there to see; but, she also builds the suspense incredibly well as Jill Michaelson. As the events unfold around this young woman; and, as Roderick and Mrs. Thatcher (played brilliantly by Beth Grant) begin to manipulate her reality, she reacts honestly and credibly.The Usher family's secret is a curse indeed! As Jill said, "They are all one line." Brother and sister as parents of the next line of twins… and, all suffering the same family curse. However, the secret is revealed when Jill takes down the family pictures -- parents have twins and those twins have twins and those twins have twins... All you have to do is listen to the names as she reads them off.However, as Roderick's book unfolds with the movie, we find out that Jill is there as a surrogate for Maddie, who went insane because of the incest. And, Roderick and Thatcher are trying to keep her hidden; she's not dead at all! In this telling, she is trying to prevent the curse from going on - WOW, what a twist on Poe, with re-curring themes of being buried alive!OKAY, now watch the rest of the movie, because the last 15-to-20 minutes make it all worthwhile.

zaefod Poor attempt at the Edgar Allen Poe tale. . I was not invested as an audience member in the film. I actually walked out. I have better things to do with my time. The acting is wooden, the direction and editing are quite poor as well. Cinematography was so so, if not that motivated, predictable. Most everything about the film was predictable. Too bad, could have been a great little thriller. Shot digitally and projected that way, which made it look even worse. the production design wasn't that bad. It didn't get in the way nor stick its head out, which is good. The sound was often out of sync and looped after the fact. All in all, I was disappointed. It really isn't that hard with a story this good to make and even passable movie, but some how this director found a way to squander it all. Don't bother.