From Mike Flanagan, the creator of The Haunting of Hill House, The Haunting Of Bly Manor and Midnight Mass, comes a brand new wicked horror series for Netflix, this time based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Check out the trailer for The Fall Of The House Of Usher…

The series follows ruthless siblings Roderick and Madeline Usher, who have built Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire of wealth, privilege and power. But past secrets come to light when the heirs to the Usher dynasty start dying at the hands of a mysterious woman from their youth.

The series is directed by Flanagan and Michael Fimognari (The Midnight Club) and stars Carla Gugino (Watchmen), Willa Fitzgerald (Scream: The TV Series), Mary McDonnell (Battlestar Galactica), Kate Siegel (Hush), Zach Gilford (The Purge: Anarchy), Mark Hamill (The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance), Henry Thomas (Midnight Mass), Annabeth Gish (Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches), Michael Trucco (Battlestar Galactica), Bruce Greenwood (Star Trek), T’Nia Miller (The Peripheral), Samantha Sloyan (The Midnight Club), Rahul Kohli (iZombie) and Katie Parker (Alt).

The series is the last show Flanagan will be making for Netflix before he and his producer partner Trevor Macy (under the Intrepid Pictures banner) movie to Amazon for their next slew of projects.

“Amazon is a studio that we have long admired,” Flanagan and Macy said to Variety. “Their commitment to engaging in groundbreaking series and content aligns with the ethos of what we have built at Intrepid. We are looking forward to working with the entire Amazon team as we bring our brand of genre productions to the service and audiences around the globe.”

And it looks like Flanagan will be leaving Netflix with a bang:  “The Fall of the House of Usher [is] super special,” said series star Rahul Kohli to us when we spoke to him earlier this year. “The buzz I’m hearing from co-stars and people who’ve seen it and people at Netflix are very excited for this one. It’s a real treat. It’s Mike’s last next Netflix thing. So it’s a goodbye from Mike, and it’s a hell of a goodbye!”

The Fall Of The House Of Usher will be out on Netflix on 12 October

Watch more trailers at the SciFiNow YouTube channel.

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Horror film is a more recent creation, yet still 100 years old with the release of Nosferatu in 1922. It makes my list for its minimalistic effects with maximum fright factor and still holds up today. I also count Whitley Strieber’s The Hunger. Both his magnificent work of fiction and the feature film. Having David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve as immortals is the very definition of gothic horror.

Also on the list is Murder by Decree, the 1979 film starring Christopher Plummer as Sherlock Holmes investigating the Whitechapel murders. Jack the Ripper and Sherlock Holmes? It doesn’t get much better than that.

Penny Dreadful, the Sky Atlantic horror mash-up and not the original penny-a-fright serials that made many a Victorian wet their knickers. Three seasons of Eva Green and Rory Kinnear (who as an actor can do no wrong) set in Victorian London. Come now. It’s every goth’s dream. It’s my number one no matter how many times I’ve watched it.

Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House is the quintessential haunted house story, but by no means the only one. Her We Have Always Lived in the Castle is equally brilliant. And terrifying. Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher rounds out my fiction choices.

Don’t Look Now, the 1973 film starring Donald Sutherland is a classic, eerie, creepy gothic horror film set in Venice that will cause you to never look at small children in red cloaks without suspicion. Also it doesn’t hurt that Warren Beatty, the boyfriend of Julie Christie at the time,  demand ‘that’ sex scene in the film with Donald Sutherland be cut out as it was rumoured there was nothing simulated about it.

There is, however, one final film which for me is chilling from start to finish. And really, it’s not gothic, but truly horrifying as it is based on a true story. Or so they say. The original Amityville Horror with James Brolin and Margot Kidder scared me half to death in 1979 as a twelve-year-old. And it still does today. There is something about the 1970s. A creepy house. A son murdering his entire family and disembodied voices telling totally stupid people to: ‘Get out!’ It just terrifies me. Watch it alone if you dare.

There you have it. My choices. I actually watched every one of these again during pandemic, as well as reading The Hunger for umpteenth time. Simply brilliant.

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