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In November 2023, Roderick Usher, the CEO of pharmaceutical company Fortunato Pharmaceuticals, loses all six of his children within two weeks. The evening after the final funeral, Roderick invites C. Auguste Dupin, an Assistant United States Attorney who dedicated his career to exposing Fortunato's corruption, to his childhood home, where he tells the true story of his family and unveils the ...
Roderick Usher is the twin of Madeline Usher and one of the last living members of the Usher family. Roderick writes to the narrator, his boyhood friend, about an ongoing illness. [3] When the narrator arrives, he is startled to see Roderick's eerie and off-putting appearance. He is described by the narrator as having:
He desperately searches for her in the winding passages of the crypt but eventually collapses. Madeline confronts Roderick and attacks him, throttling him to death. Suddenly the house, already aflame due to fallen coals from the fire, begins to collapse, and the two Ushers and Bristol are consumed by the falling house, ending the Usher bloodline.
Similar to The Fall of the House of Usher short story, Madeline’s half-alive body later emerges from the basement and attacks her brother. She strangles him just as the House of Usher begins to ...
Among the changes in the story from the original material was the relationship between Roderick and his sister which was changed to man and wife in the film. Usher's obsession with completing a painting of his dying wife is a detail more synonymous to another of Poe's works, The Oval Portrait, rather than -House of Usher. Film critic and ...
The Fall of the House of Usher is a 1950 British horror film directed by Ivan Barnett and starring Gwen Watford in her film debut, Kaye Tendeter and Irving Steen. [2] The screenplay was by Dorothy Catt and Kenneth Thompson, adapted from the 1839 short story of the same title by Edgar Allan Poe .
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Ryan's uncle Roderick wants Molly for himself and has imprisoned his brother Walter in an upstairs room. Walter escapes by murdering the maid and then also murders her daughter before attacking Roderick in an attempt to end the family line. Roderick however, throws Walter from some stairs as the house catches on fire.