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Simply Perfect

Absolutely brilliant

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I really have to give up on Jess Franco movies. This film was a total ripoff for anybody expecting a gory version of a Poe adaption. It had very little to do with Poe's famous story and much to do with Franco's previous Dr. Orloff film. A good chunk of this mess is scenes from Orloff and looks like what it is: padding. The box art for the version I saw has a woman being menaced with a power drill: no such scene exists in this movie. What does remain of Poe is a badly done retread of earlier efforts concerning the fall of the house of Usher: all done better by the 1960 film by Roger Corman. Nothing to recommend. I have heard there is a Spanish version that is completely different and much better but at this point who cares?! Avoid!

Phew...I am a devoted fan of Jess Franco, but watching 3 incredibly awful movies of his in less than one week (this one, Oasis of the Zombies and The Castle of Fu Manchu) really isn't my admiration and respect for him doing much good! "Revenge in the House of Usher" is a very disappointing effort and it's a complete mystery to me what Franco intended to pull off by making it. Why filming another version of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale when there are already other (and better) movies made revolving on the tale of the Ushers? Why did Franco feel it was necessary to link Poe's tale with his own 60's chiller "The Awful Dr. Orloff"? And, more importantly, why in God's name did I spent 10 Pounds buying this DVD?? This movie has nothing to do with Poe, it's unimaginably boring and it lacks every form of action or excitement. Howard Vernon (him again) stars as an insane "doctor" who keeps on trying to resurrect his late daughter with the blood of young girls. Living with him in the ramshackle castle are some insane employees and a couple of ghosts from the past. 'Revenge in the House of Usher' is horribly slow and it completely lacks all the elements that made Jess Franco (in)famous! Lina Romay stars in this film, yet she keeps her clothes on and the only bit of violence there was to see were actually flashbacks. I can imagine Franco is proud of his "Awful Dr. Orloff" but that doesn't give him the right to re-edit entire sequences of it in other movies! Like every other reviewer here already pointed out: stay far away from this movie!

Starring the usual Franco stalwart Howard Vernon (in terrible white pancake makeup), this one is awful, simply awful. The dubbing, the acting, the prosthetics, the makeup, everything....This just goes to show you what a schlock director Jess Franco had become. A third year film student could do better than this.It doesn't even hold a candle of Roger Corman's HOUSE OF USHER (1960). Nowhere close...Other than having a couple of cute Spanish chicks, this waste of celluloid that has nothing going for it.1 out of 10 for being such a silver nitrate waste

Amazing! Once again Franco hits the fan with an incredibly strange picture. Slow to the point of boredom, awfully cheap-looking (there is no photography to speak of), it is also extremely badly played. Howard Vernon hams it up a lot, and the whole thing looks more like a stage play than a cinema movie. There is no real plot, only typically Franco-ish characters (stupid, pointless, bored and flawed) filling the place with screams and talk. As Usher remembers the past, many sequences from THE AWFUL DOCTOR ORLOFF are inserted to achieve the running time of 90 minutes. No need to say, the ending of it all is more than welcome. Doctor Orlof strikes again! God bless Jess!