New Netflix present The Fall Of The Home Of Usher has proved successful with critics to this point, with many describing it as a horror-version of hit HBO present, Succession.
The collection is the following venture from Mike Flanagan, who created Netflix’s The Haunting Of Hill Home, The Haunting Of Bly Manor and this yr’s Midnight Mass.
The eight-episode collection follows the gloomy downfall of pharmaceutical kingpin Roderick Usher (performed by Bruce Greenwood) and his wealthy household who are sometimes at loggerheads – very similar to the forged of Succession.
Describing the present on X/Twitter final yr, Flanagan wrote: “This miniseries is a contemporary remix of among the most iconic works of Edgar Allan Poe. To inform this epic story of greed, horror, and tragedy, we’ve got assembled the most important ensemble forged within the historical past of Intrepid Footage.”
The collection, which premieres on Netflix on October 12, has been licensed ‘contemporary’ by Rotten Tomatoes, scoring an enormous 92% optimistic rating to this point.
“The Fall of the Home of Usher is Mike Flanagan’s most bold horror story but,” mentioned The Verge, whereas Leisure Weekly described it as “Succession meets Edgar Allan Poe fan fiction.”
Self-importance Honest added: “Home Of Usher is a heavy present, stuffed to the gills with morbid humour and gloomy pathos, political allusions jumbled along with myriad popular culture references. The collection is, in its eight-episode run, generally an exhausting sit. But it’s engrossing all through, shifting from the gothic to the baroque as depressing punishment befalls every Usher—one by bloody one.”
Evaluating it to Flanagan’s different work, Metro mentioned: “The place Haunting of Hill Home and Midnight Mass danced with the thought of drama whereas honing in on their extra horrific stylings, and The Midnight Membership and Haunting Of Bly Manor subverted this in favour of theatrics, Fall Of The Home Of Usher masters each in an intensely gripping present that oozes intrigue.”
Comicbook in the meantime mentioned the work “can’t examine with Flanagan’s earlier” however added that there have been nonetheless “nice grand…joys” to remove from the work.”
Empire journal thought the present was “no reverent Poe adaptation”, saying it was “as a substitute, it’s extra an interpretation of his themes of selfishness and remorse, used as the muse for a wholly invented story.”
The present options an intensive forged that features Mark Hamill, Willa Fitzgerald, and Mary McDonnell alongside Bruce Greenwood, Carla Gugino, Kate Siegel, Henry Thomas, Zach Gilford, Carl Lumbly, Samantha Sloyan, T’Niah Miller, Rahul Kohli, Michael Trucco, Annabeth Gish, Robert Longstreet, and Katie Parker.
Hamill (Star Wars) will play “a personality surprisingly at house within the shadows,” whereas McDonnell (Battlestar Galactica) takes on the function of Madeline Usher, Roderick’s twin sister. Carl Lumbly (Physician Sleep) is ready to play Poe’s investigator C. Auguste Dupin.
The present will premiere on Netflix from Thursday 12 October.