It’s clear when Pink Floyd’s rollicking protest song “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2” begins to play in the opening moments of The Fall of the House of Usher that viewers are in for a wild ride.

Poe's fiance, Lenore, falls into a coma and is taken for dead. She is rescued at the last possible moment from being buried alive, but the experience has driven her insane. On the advice of his friend ...