The FALL of the HOUSE of USHER-Rehash of Other Horror Thrillers

The latest series set to add to the Halloween season, The FALL of the HOUSE of USHER, fails to raise any new luster to the chills and thrilsl that have fallen before.  In fact, this NETFLIX series feels like a dead ringer for "The Haunting of Hill House" and takes from the pages of several of Stephen King's novels.  There's even a repeat of several actors in "House of Usher" who were in "Hill House."  The story focuses on twin siblings Madeline and Roderick Usher who grow up with a single mother.  The twins grow deeply attached to one another but apart from everyone else.  Their mother worked for the town's wealthy brute as his assistant for decades. The mom refuses medical attention which is against her religious beliefs.  When their mother dies at home they agree to abide to her wishes and bury her in the yard without notifying authorities.  The night they buried their mother, Roderick is awoken by a storm.  When they look outside they discover their mother's plot has been dug hip and empty.  It's not a shocking surprise she's standing in their kitchen dripping wet, looking half-dead and totally upset. Can't say as I blame her or for heading straight to the home of her former boss to strangle him to death while her teen twins watch. The story shifts a couple more decades to the combined funeral of three of Roderick's grown children with only a few people besides Roderick and his sister attending the service.  Although there's a demonic presence which appears in the church whom only Roderick is able to see.  Roderick and his sister Madeline built a hugely successful drug empire that dispensed opioids.  This is the same as the Sackler family that built a house of pain and to the popular series SUCCESSION.  The first episode highlights headlines of the deaths of all six of Roderick's children and the strange circumstances of their deaths.  There's a lot to unwind here and the series flashbacks to the beginning as Roderick provides the full account of the sordid events of how each one actually died and all his corrupt actions to the rapt attention of the US Atty. Gen. whose pursued him for years.  The full confession is being offered by Roderick in his dilapidated childhood home in front of a fire on a stormy night wrapped in his silk robe with a snifter of cognac.  Furthermore, the literary references to Edgar Allen Poe like the tired and true plots within, harken to the same ole reuse of other's works that have come before and nothing more.