Comparing three versions of The Fall of the House of Usher

In this video I compare three versions of the story of The Fall of the House of Usher; the original short story, the 1960 film and the 2023 Netflix series created by Mike Flanagan. I also give a brief shout-out to The Simpsons’ rendition of The Raven!

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00:00 Intro
02:02 The story
09:03 The 1960 film
17:01 The Simpsons
19:00 The Netflix show
28:23 The Ushers
29:53 Ep 1 A Midnight Dreary
34:26 Ep 2 Masque of the Red Death
38:38 Ep 3 Murder in the Rue Morgue
42:44 Ep 4 The Black Cat
47:49 Ep 5 The Tell-Tale Heart
51:46 Ep 6 Goldbug
57:50 Ep 7 The Pit & the Pendulum
01:06:16 Ep 8 The Raven
01:15:23 The Fall of the House of Usher

Image credits:

Screenshots from the Netflix TV series via https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15567174... and https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Vern... and https://www.ranker.com/list/fall-of-t... and https://www.netflix.com/tudum/article... and https://darkside.blog.br/os-7-gatos-m...

Screenshots from The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) via https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053925/...

Screenshots from The Simpsons, Treehouse of Horror 1: The Raven via https://www.flickr.com/photos/meetthy...

Screenshots from The Haunting of Bly Manor via https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10970552...

Illustration of the House of Usher by Arthur Rackham: Edgar Allan Poe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Edgar Allen Poe: W.S. Hartshorn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Illustration for "Metzengerstein" by Edgar Allan Poe: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Illustration for The Cask of Amontillado: Arthur Rackham, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Painting for Ligeia: Byam Shaw, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Illustration for the Murders in the Rue Morgue: Byam Shaw, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Murders in the Rue Morgue illustration: Arthur Rackham, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Murders in the Rue Morgue cover: Blau-Barcelona, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons

The Black Cat: H. Meyer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Tell-Tale Heart: Edgar Allan Poe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Berenice: Boston Public Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Gold-Bug: Yan' Dargent, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
The Pit and the Pendulum: Arthur Rackham, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket: Frederic Theodore Lix (1830-1897) or Jean-Édouard Dargent (or Yan' Dargent, 1824-1899); 2 illustrations by F. Lix and 4 by Yan’ Dargent, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Premature Burial: Harry Clarke, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Masque of the Red Death: Byam Shaw, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Masque of the Red Death revellers: Arthur Rackham, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Caligula: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Spectacles: Byam Shaw, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Anna Cooke: Taken from ''The life of Jeroboam O. Beauchamp, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The murder of Sharp: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

William Wilson illustration, Arthur Rackham, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Jupiter and Juno: Arnold Houbraken, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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