The Fall of the House of Usher: Mike Flanagan's new series hits Netflix - Trailer

Specializing in horror series on Netflix, Mike Flanagan makes his comeback, following The Haunting, Midnight Sermons and The Midnight Club. This time, he adapts one of Edgar Allan Poe's best-known short stories, The Fall of the House of Usher. The 8-episode series arrives on Netflix on October 12.

The trailer for The Fall of the House of Usher

And for the occasion, he has surrounded himself well. The cast of The Fall of the House of Usher includes Mark Hamill, Carla Gugino and Willa Fitzgerald, among others. And from the first images of the trailer, we can expect plenty ofhorror, and a series of mysterious murders within an upper-middle-class family.

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The Fall of the House of Usher synopsis

Entrepreneurial couple Roderick and Madeline Usher have built up a veritable pharmaceutical empire. When a mysterious woman reveals their sordid secrets to the world, the family begins to reveal their true nature.

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