Description: SURREAL INTERPRETATION OF EDGAR ALLEN POE'S FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER. AVANT GARDE CINEMA. IN A DECAYING CASTLE SURROUNDED BY A LAKE LIVE RODERICK USHER AND HIS SICKLY TWIN SISTER, MADELINE. THEIR TALE IS TOLD BY AN UNNAMED NARRATOR, A BOYHOOD FRIEND WHOM RODERICK HAS SUMMONED. WHEN MADELINE DIES, OR SEEMS TO DIE, THEY ENTOMB HER BODY. ON A STORMY NIGHT, THE EMACIATED FIGURE OF MADELINE APPEARS AT THE DOOR OF RODERICK'S STUDY, FALLS UPON HIM AND DIES. THE AGHAST NARRATOR HAS TIME ONLY TO FLEE THE CASTLE BEFORE IT BEGINS TO CRUMBLE.
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