In this quintessential adaptation of the Edgar Allan Poe story, Vincent Price plays Roderick Usher who suffers from 'morbid acuteness of the senses' and believes his family is cursed with pure evil. When a young man attempts to take Roderick's ailing sister Madeline away, he does everything he can to stop her from leaving ­ even burying her alive!

It is 1960 and Vincent begins his collaboration with Roger Corman and American International Pictures. It is a period which would solidify Price's status as a master of the macabre and see him create a new legion of fans. So bid farewell to the sweet matinee idol and b-picture contract player and welcome the new King of Horror. His portrayal of Edgar Allan Poe's mobid Roderick Usher in the first of the AIP/Corman/Poe cycle is one of his finest screen creations. What a joy! What a monster!

I heard her first feeble movements in the coffin... we had put her living in the tomb!