Edgar Allen Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher is a 1928 short silent horror film adaptation of the short story, “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe. It tells the story of a brother and sister who live under a family curse. It stars Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson and Melville Webber.
The movie was directed by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber.
A very Avant-garde experimental film, Watson and Webber based their interpretation on a 1925 version of “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Charles F. Klein. (This latter film is now considered a lost film.) The visual element dominates the film, including shots through prisms to create optical distortion. There is no dialogue, though one part features letters moving across the screen.
You can read Poe’s original work at Project Gutenberg here.
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