Edgar Allen Poe’s classic tale of the macabre serves as the foundation for this 13-minute avant-garde film by James Sibley Watson and Melville Webber. Startlingly stylized in composition, costume and set design, this version of the horror classic is as much interested in the tale’s psychological underpinnings as its haunting story. Filled with innovative editing, lighting and camera work, ‘Usher’ appears as modern today as when it premiered at the Film Arts Guild in 1929.