"Is there no end to your horrors?"
"No. None whatever. For they are not mine alone."
Roderick Usher is certainly a role that Vincent Price seemed born to play. Seeing him here, speaking Poe and Richard Matheson's dialogue, one can't help but understand why Corman's 'Poe Cycle' was successful. Vincent Price has that wonderful 'man out of time' quality about him as an actor. You sincerely believe him as a man of the period in which the film takes place. The way he speaks, the way the costumes suit him, he really inhabits the world of Poe perfectly. Much like Warren Oates after him could play a character from the old west and beyond, Price and Poe are truly a match made in heaven. Props to Corman are due as well. For a man as notorious for working on a budget as he was, he creates a nice sense of atmospheric dread here. For a movie as talky as this is, it is nonetheless mesmerizing and Vincent Price is a huge part of that.

But wait, there's more! Also:
-High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the feature, transferred from original film elements by MGM
-Original uncompressed 2.0 Mono PCM Audio
-Interview with author and Gothic horror expert Jonathan Rigby
-Fragments of the House of Usher: A Specially-commissioned video essay by critic and filmmaker David Cairns examining Corman’s film in relation to Poe’s story
-Original Trailer
-Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Graham Humphreys
-Collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by author and critic Tim Lucas and an extract from Vincent Price’s long out of print autobiography, illustrated with original archive stills and posters
This Blu-ray is available from Arrow Video as both a Blu-ray and a Steelbook set:
http://www.arrowfilms.co.uk/index.php?tle_id=776&art_id=44
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