The Fall of the House of Usher (Season 1)

The Fall of the House of Usher (2023) is a Netflix limited series you can watch online on iFILM — eight episodes by Mike Flanagan weaving together tales by Edgar Allan Poe into a single, corrosive story about a pharmaceutical dynasty built on other people's suffering.

Roderick and Madeline Usher turned Fortunato Pharmaceuticals into an empire. Then the heirs start dying. Six of Roderick's children, one after another, each killed in circumstances tied to a mysterious woman they encountered on a pivotal night decades ago. Carla Gugino plays that figure with cold precision. Bruce Greenwood brings something exhausted and guilty to the patriarch. Mark Hamill shows up as the family's long-serving attorney. Each death mirrors a Poe story — "The Masque of the Red Death," "The Gold-Bug," "Metzengerstein" — and each heir embodies a particular flavor of greed. The show is not just horror. It is a sardonic autopsy of American wealth.

Flanagan, who previously built "The Haunting of Hill House" and "Midnight Mass" for Netflix, delivers his sharpest screenplay here. Released in October 2023, the series earned strong critical notices for its performances and structural ambition. Stream The Fall of the House of Usher online on iFILM.