#house of usher

[moxyphinx]

Carla Gugino as Verna in THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (2023)

[druidcore]

mike flannagan essentially saying that greed and capitalism and the hunger for money (not borne out of a need for safety and contentment, but for power and the urge for more) is death to an artist. that poetry and truth and art cannot live in tandem with greed. that they are anathema to the duplicitous, treasonous and covetous nature of the wealthy and gluttonous.

[snake-and-mouse]

I think people are missing the nuance that Perry wasn't bad because he had a gay kinky orgy. It was because he was a symbol of the rich constantly reaching for unbridled hedonism with zero consequences while actively hurting others. His brother wanted him to not get caught up in drugs but he didn’t listen to the idea he had more potential. He seduced his sister in law. He recorded the orgy and was going to use it as blackmail. This wasn't some indictment against sex positivity. It's about how easy it is to be carefree when the world is at your fingertips and what you are actually doing is not caring about what you should. It was a message that masking your crimes under fun and passion doesn't make them any less awful.

The kinky Ushers were not demonised for being kinky or gay or sexual. They were held accountable for the ways they hurt people, and most of that hurt was disguised as consensual emotional or sexual relationships.

[pierppasolini]

House of Usher (2008) // dir. David DeCoteau

[horrorme]

House of Usher (1960)

[classichorrorblog]

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[80sghosts]

Willa Fitzgerald as Madeline Usher in The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)

[germposting]

ok so i know that a lot of people heard verna tell madeline and roderick that their family would never face legal ramifications for their crimes as part of their deal and then just threw out pym’s involvement as a throw away character protected only by a supernatural shield. they just went “oh ok so he was only a ‘good lawyer’ because they were divinely shielded from consequences so he wasn’t really worth shit” or whatever but how has nobody come to the very possible conclusion that arthur pym IS the divine protection??

verna could have sent him to the ushers *as* the protection from the law. because hes worth six or seven lawyers and he knows how to get shit done. she admits to having admired him for a long while. i think hes the first human she meets when she decides to go to earth to watch the humans? roderick himself tells this to auguste dupin when they recount arthurs ability to make shit disappear and find people who can’t be found.

arthur gordon pym was the divine intervention that protected the ushers for all those decades. he was aided by verna and benefited from his proximity to the family, sure, but his success (lets call it what it is, he succeeded) shouldn’t be written off as something that just “happened” and he took the credit for. he is the credit. he is the protection. he willingly goes to jail and confesses his crimes and refuses vernas offer to make a deal after it becomes clear the ushers are doomed, its his choice. its not the shield being lifted and unable to protect without the ushers around, its pym not having anyone to protect anymore. he says it himself, he doesn’t have any collateral. why not repent at that point?

anyway all this to say i love arthur pym and i dont think his character should be diminished at all by the revelation of the usher twins deal with the raven. also mark hamill crushed it

[luthien-under-bough]

i watched all of The Fall of the House of Usher in one sitting so my brain is sludge but before i pass out allow me to say one thing:

Carla Gugino fucking ATE

[freckleslikestars]

When life hands you lemons... Make lemonade? No.

The Fall of the House of Usher

Murder in the Rue Morgue

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

The spooky atmosphere of

The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) dir. Roger Corman

[imarara]

I don't think we talk about Madeline Usher enough here, but especially on the parallel between her in the last episode and her mother in the 1st one.

Both came back from the dead to strangle the man they loved the most and sacrificed the most for. The show made Rodrick the narrator, but I think it plays on the "women being in the shadow of the main hero, a man" quite nicely - she was shown to be a version of her brother who is a little bit more of him in every aspect; more focused, more calculated, more cautious, more creative, etc, but since she's on screen less time then he is it can be overlooked.

She was also more empathetic as weird as it sounds, but she was trying to give Lenore some version of immortality, she was the one who was at the goldbug's launch, she was the one to assign security to the kids, she was the one who came up with new alternative path for the company, and probably she was the one that made Rodrick change his plans in the past - probably out of her pragmatic nature since she thought it was better for him. A great example of it is how she tries to feel out the deal before making a decision about Verna's deal, looking at Rodrick because it is he who already has children. After the deal she never gave birth, while Rodrick didn't bother to buy some rubber at least 4 times.

And coming back to the mother parallel, I just love it. It may mean so many things - generational trauma (which won't be the case for Ushers anymore i guess), the play on this lately more and more popular theme of mother-daughter relationship and if daughters become their mothers no matter how much they disagreed, maybe how the history repeats itself, maybe it's a jab at how much can women give and give until they are finally out of everything but their hurt, or maybe it was a play on how fine of a line there is between love and hatred?

It may be a little messy of a way to put it, but I just finished it and well, Flanagan brainrot I guess

[druidcore]

something something mike flannagan something something "this room is like the heart of the house. no, not a heart, a stomach." something something "you didn't feed them though, did you? you starved them."

[snake-and-mouse]

Thinking about how Camille's stoned monologue about how Ushers never actually make things becomes so much worse knowing they were all born just to die. Roderick took away their future and almost as if they all somehow knew, none of them actually built a legacy to leave behind. Just money they couldn't spend and work done by other people. They all left the stage together and left nothing behind.

[pierppasolini]

House of Usher (2008) // dir. David DeCoteau

[caitylove]

Mary, your face is an absolute mood in this.