What if Edgar Allan Poe had penned “Succession“? The result might be “The Fall of the House of Usher,” the latest streaming terror from Mike Flanagan (“Midnight Mass“).
Flanagan, once again working with his usual stable of players, takes a “shut up and play the hits” approach to Poe here, dipping into the legendary author’s work to reference nearly everything you can think of — “The Raven,” “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Masque of the Red Death,” “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” and on and on.
Even Poe’s famous detective character C.
Auguste Dupin has a part to play, only now he’s been upgraded from a sleuth to a crusading district attorney, played with calm gravitas by Carl Lumbly.At the center of it all is an obscenely wealthy, and morally corrupt family of siblings, all of whom are under the thumb of their ruthless patriarch, Roderick Usher (Bruce Greenwood).
Flanagan…
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