La chute de la maison Usher

I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately I BOUGHT it (cheaply) and you've done better than me because I've attempted to watch it twice with no luck. Where does the aka Zombie bit in the title come from? The reason I bought it was one of the cast from Blairwitch Project said in an interview that a House of Usher film was their favorite horror. On checking after my mistake, it was a different House of Usher film!

A lot of people are complaining about this film - but watch this short interview with Franco - about the movie he initially made and what the studio then did to it to turn it into the piece of crap everyone is complaining about. I'd love to get hold of the original film Franco made (Fall of the House of Usher) and compare it to the version that is commonly available.

Director Jess Franco's REVENGE OF THE HOUSE OF USHER has little to do with the original Poe story. It's about the insane Dr. Eric Usher (Franco regular Howard Vernon) and his diabolical experiments.

When the visiting Alan Harker (Antonio Mayans) uncovers Usher's activities, involving female test subjects locked in his dungeon, Usher goes into an extremely lengthy explanation.

Said explanation includes 20+ minutes of "flashback" footage from an unrelated movie (Franco's THE AWFUL DR. ORLOF)! The rest of this film appears to be whatever happened to arise in the Director's mind at the time.

Sitting through this, like having your face stuffed into the world's biggest armpit, is pure misery...

Dr. Alan Harker (Robert Foster) receives an invitation and arrives at the house of his former professor at the Prague University, Roderic Usher (Howard Vernon), who lives with his housekeeper Helen (Lina Romay) in an old castle. Dr. Usher is insane, living with ghosts, and invites his former student Harker to proceed with his research. He tells to Harker that when his daughter Melissa (Françoise Blanchard) died many years ago, he had developed a means to reanimate her using the blood of prostitutes. Along many years, Dr. Usher and his assistant Morpho (Olivier Mathot) kidnapped and killed many young women to keep Melissa alive. But when Harker meets Dr. Seward (Daniel Villiers), who is the doctor of Dr. Usher, he explains that Dr. Usher is delusional. What is the truth about Dr. Usher and his secret?

"Revenge in the House of Usher" is a boring, lame and messy movie by Jess Franco based on the story of the Edgar Allan Poe. The plot is a senseless mess, the old castle is actually a preserved castle, there is no continuity in the edition in this forgettable film. My vote is three.

Title (Brazil): "A Queda da Casa de Usher" ("The Fall of the House of Usher")

A traveler arrives at the Usher mansion to find that the sibling inhabitants are living under a mysterious family curse: The brother's senses have become painfully acute, while his sister has become nearly catatonic.

Why has this film been given the new name of "Zombie 5"? I mean, sure, it is a stretch to say it is based on Poe's "House of Usher", but it is an even bigger stretch to try to say this somehow fits in the Italian "Zombie" franchise... not even close.

People seem to hate this film, and I can see why. The effects are terrible: the poor use of a spotlight to simulate a hand-held light, the strange eyeball. One reviewer said they fell asleep twice in the first fifteen minutes. I did not find it nearly all that bad. Cheesy, sure, A bit weak on plot, certainly. But I have seen a lot worse than this, even from Jess Franco.