How The Fall of the House of Usher Changed Horror Movies
Roger Cormans film of the classic Edgar Allan Poe story ushered in a new era of horror. I felt audiences would enjoy seeing them on the screen. He pitched AIP an adaptation of the Poe story and the studio said yes. The incestuous sexual/horror relationship between them, it was just a fascinating situation. He was so pale and withdrawn that the sunlight never, ever touched his flesh. I myself had no plans to make a second picture, Corman said years later onAmerican Masters....