We’re big fans of Mike Flanagan here at FTN HQ, the man behind The Haunting of Hill House, Doctor Sleep and, hopefully, The Dark Tower, and we’re pretty stoked for the arrival of his last series at Netflix, The Fall of the House of Usher.
So, imagine our delight when the first eight minutes of the series were dropped by Netflix for us all to enjoy!
You can check it out below and admit that this just makes you more excited for binging the whole series over the weekend.
And you’re praying that Flanagan’s Dark Tower series at Amazon (probably) gets the green light soon!
Mike Flanagan’s upcoming horror drama opens with a funeral for not one, but three deceased characters. The family patriarch, Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood), is a powerful pharmaceutical CEO who’s built a painkiller empire with his twin sister, Madeline (Mary McDonnell) — and now all of his children are dead. Everyone’s under a microscope, as we see newspaper clippings announcing the brutal deaths of each Usher heir pinned up on a bulletin board.
As we come to find out in the first scene, these clips belong to C. Auguste Dupin (Carl Lumbly), an assistant US attorney who’s spent more than three decades trying to expose the Usher family for their nefarious crimes. With his bloodline gone and nothing left to lose, Roderick is ready to confess to Dupin — and he says he’ll reveal how his children died. But you’ll have to wait until Oct. 12 to find out how these freak accidents occurred.
Mike Flanagan says once the strikes are over, his Dark Tower series is top priority!
Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s most haunting short stories and poems, The Fall of the House of Usher tells the story of one family’s rise to success, and the privilege and greed that eventually brings them down. “Roderick Usher is a guy who has never had to pay for any trespass. He’s moved forward in his life without impediment at the expense of everybody and everything around him,” Greenwood told Netflix during production. McDonnell added, “Mike was really examining the greed that is at the core of really all of our problems on the planet, and the narcissism of greed, and the havoc that can wreak.”
The Fall of the House of Usher also stars Willa Fitzgerald, Mark Hamill, Henry Thomas, Crystal Balint, Kyliegh Curran, Samantha Sloyan, Matt Biedel, Kate Siegel, Rahul Kohli, Daniel Jun, T’Nia Miller, Paola Núñez, Sauriyan Sapkota, and Ruth Codd.
The Fall of the House of Usher premieres Oct. 12 on Netflix.
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