For years, author/director Mike Flanagan has introduced an annual scary collection to Netflix—starting with The Haunting Of Hill Home and going by means of The Haunting Of Bly Manor, Midnight Mass, and final yr’s The Midnight Membership—however again in December we heard that Flanagan wouldn’t be renewing his growth cope with Netflix and that he and producing accomplice Trevor Macy can be switching to Prime Video.
However, for followers of this custom, Flanagan has one final Netflix miniseries on the best way to make your spooky season somewhat spookier: The Fall Of The Home Of Usher. Loosely (looooosely) primarily based on the Edgar Allan Poe story of the identical identify, the collection is in regards to the evil CEO of a pharmaceutical firm going through a reckoning for the darkish deeds dedicated by him and his household, and it simply bought its first trailer:
In case the “nevermore” bit didn’t tip you off, the collection is doing a complete Edgar Allan Poe factor, not simply the story it takes its identify from, but it surely stays to be seen if that is some form of elaborate Poe mash-up or if these issues will simply be Easter eggs for the true Raven-heads on the market. There are additionally Succession vibes, as if that present invented the trope of the dangerous wealthy household the place everyone seems to be dangerous and wealthy, however the Poe stuff looks like a extra specific and purposeful advert (there’s a “nevermore” bit and never an “eldest boy” bit).
The Fall Of The Home Of Usher is coming to Netflix on October 12, and it stars Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Mary McDonnell, Carl Lumbly, Mark Hamill, Rahul Kohli, Kate Siegel, Samantha Sloyan, and T’Nia Miller. And with this completed, Flanagan is hopefully laborious at work on his Darkish Tower adaptation.
