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The Fall of the House of Usher (1980)

Jan Švankmajer · Czechoslovakia · Horror / Experimental / Stop-Motion · 15 min · 24K views

Poe's tale of a doomed family and their crumbling mansion, told without human actors through animated clay, wood, stone and decaying objects.

Švankmajer turns Poe's gothic classic into a hypnotic, unsettling dance of living matter.

surrealist film by Jan Svankmajer, based on the story by Edgar Allen Poe

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