Скачать или смотреть The Fall Of The House of Usher remix

This is a mash-up of two silent avant-garde film versions of Poe's "The Fall Of The House Of Usher" from the 1920s. I did this back in the early 2000s for my own entertainment and recently re-did it in HD along with a remastered soundtrack and the improvement is stunning. You can get an excellent blu ray version of it as part of our "Avant Grade" collection at Lowbudget Records:

http://www.lowbudgetrecords.com/pages...

The sepia-tinted images come from Jean Epstein’s 1928 French impressionist film, while the green-tinted images come from an Expressionist short made in the U.S. the same year by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber. Both films are difficult to find on physical media; the Epstein film was only released once on DVD and is out of print.

I eliminated the title cards from the Epstein film and edited out most of the opening scenes, which dealt with the friend traveling to visit Usher at his gloomy old mansion and stopping at a rural inn along the way. (These scenes mirrored Bram Stoker's "Dracula"). I also made his "wife" his "sister" as in the Poe story (Luis Buñuel quit the picture over Epstein's decision to remove the incestuous relationship).

I then took the shorter American film and superimposed it over the French film during moments when you're seeing the inner mind of Roderick Usher, who is deteriorating quickly as the story proceeds. Sometimes the superimposition serendipitously reinforced the plot, which was always a nice surprise.

Of course, this is an alternate version of both films and is not meant to replace them. Seek the originals out and enjoy them as well.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this little bonbon of a classic horror film. (If you have a blu ray player and a surround system, you really need it on disc.)