i just watched the "house of usher" with vincent price, anybody else think that it was schlocky??

Question

i realize that vincent price movies probably were never nominated for oscars, but man, this movie was badddddd. besides they deviated from the original Edgar Allen Poe story,,,the original story had Roderick Usher invite an old friend to the house. the movie had Roderick's sister's boyfriend come to the house to persuade her to come back to boston with him...a blooper in the movie was the butler made the boyfriend remove his boots at the door and put on slippers, but the rest of the movie the boyfriend was wearing the boots....lol

Answer 1

ALL Vincent Price movies were "schlocky"!! lol That was the appeal of them. Good job picking up on the editing error - I do stuff like that too & it makes my mom nuts when she watches movies with me! lol

Answer 2

Certainly by today's standards it is schlocky; however, you have to keep in mind when it was made - 1960. It was pre-computer or word processor and there was no such thing as computer generated anything - all scripts were written on a typewriter and continuity was kept track of my keeping notes in a notebook, not a database.

Almost all movies, even state-of-the art multi-million dollar movies today have continuity errors and goofs of one sort or another (check out the following):
http://www.2loop.com/moviemistakes.html

I have never found any move or T.V. adaption of a Poe story (or Stephen King story, for that matter) that has ever come close to living up to his stories and while this movie was another hack job, it wasn't butchered as much as many of his other works had when they try to adapt them.