HEX performs the original a cappella score written and premiered by C3LA in 2018 - “The Fall of the House of Usher” at First Congregational church of Los Angeles on Friday the 13th! Tickets available HERE.

Jean Epstein and Luis Buñuel’s adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a haunting combination of the Impressionist and Surrealist approaches of the film’s director (Epstein) and writer (Buñuel). The film follows an unnamed Narrator as he visits an ailing friend and his wife: Sir Roderick Usher and Madeline. The pair live in isolation in their “dilapidated mansion,” where Roderick obsessively paints Madeline’s portrait. Her health wanes, and eventually she expires and is buried. Roderick, though, is convinced that she is not dead, a conviction that is validated in the final moments of the film, when she rises from the grave to rejoin her husband. As Madeline returns, the house begins to collapse, and its inhabitants (along with the Narrator) flee the wreck.