Netflix has released the first trailer for The Fall of the House of Usher, a gothic horror series directed by Mike Flanagan, who has previously directed four successful projects for the service.
The plot of this horror series is based on the Gothic story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe, however, its events are transferred to our time. Now, the plot centers on the CEO of a corrupt pharmaceutical company, who faces his dubious past when his children start dying in mysterious and brutal ways.
The series stars Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars film epic), Bruce Greenwood, Carla Gugino, Kate Siegel, Zach Guilford, Samantha Sloane, Rahul Kohli, and a number of other actors who have appeared in Flanagan’s previous series.
The series will be released on Netflix on October 12, 2023. It will consist of eight episodes, all of which will be released simultaneously.
Mike Flanagan’s previous projects for Netflix
The mini-series “The Fall of the House of Usher” is part of a big deal with Netflix, which involves the release of a number of horror series. All of them consist of one season and are not connected by a plot, but they often involve the same actors playing different characters.
The first series to be released was The Haunting of Hill House in 2018. Inspired by its success among both critics and viewers, Netflix ordered several more series from Flanagan, including The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020), Midnight Mass (2021), and The Midnight Club (2022).
There were also rumors that after The Fall of the House of Usher, Flanagan would develop the series Something’s Killing the Children for Netflix, but then he left the project and it was taken over by the German couple Baran bo Odar and Yantje Friese, who previously directed the series Darkness and 1899 for Netflix.
Flanagan himself, who once directed such horror films as Dr. Sleep and Ouija: The Origin of Evil, seems to have decided to return to the big screen for now: in May 2023, it became known that he was adapting Stephen King’s novel Life of Chuck starring Tom Hiddleston and Mark Hamill.
