Mike Flanagan’s next project will be spotlighting Edgar Allen Poe’s original hair-raising short story. Much like his other reimaginings, this modern adaptation will surely feature an abundance of his famous subversion, surprising even longtime Poe fans. With that in mind, we can still take a stab at what to anticipate with the foundation provided by the early father of horror.
“The Fall of the House of Usher” begins with a narrator visiting his friend Roderick Usher after being sent a letter about Roderick’s grave illness. Notably, when he arrives at the towering Usher house, he notices a thin crack dividing the house and connecting to the adjacent lake. This heavy foreshadowing is signature Edgar Allen Poe at his finest and bares inevitable consequences for the story’s tragic conclusion.
Living with Roderick is his troubled and sick sister Madeline, who succumbs to odd deathlike trances of disassociation. Roderick paints to cope with his depressing situation and desperately warns the unnamed narrator that the house is noisily alive. Soon after, his sister Madeline seemingly dies and is entombed in the family’s plot. Roderick is uneasy and paranoid, so the narrator reads him a knightly story while the house creaks along. In a bizarre twist, Madeline is responsible for the noise, and when she’s released, collapses, scaring Roderick to death, and killing both twins. The House of Usher then falls and slides into the lake as the narrator runs out.
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