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Frederick "Freddy" Usher is a major antagonist in the 2023 gothic horror drama The Fall of the House of Usher.
He is the incompetent, eldest son of Roderick Usher who becomes the heir to the Usher fortune. He is perhaps the most grotesque and belligerent of the children, having accomplished very little for himself despite his privilege and family's power.
As an adult, he is portrayed by Henry Thomas, who also portrayed Sean Roberts in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Norman Bates in Psycho IV: The Beginning, Tom Mahout in Gerald's Game and Jack Torrance/Lloyd the Bartender in Doctor Sleep. As a child, he was portrayed by William Kosovic.
Personality[]
Freddy is shown to be highly ignorant toward his wife, Morrie, and daughter, Lenore. He spends most of his time perfecting his bowling skills or taking drugs. He is described by Verna to have only wanted his father's approval, despite having no ambition or accomplishments to warrant it.
Biography[]
Background[]
Roderick Usher and his sister, Madeline, make a deal with Verna in 1980 on New Year's Eve, whereby they are guaranteed unparalleled wealth and success through whatever means they prefer on the condition that their bloodline ends with them. As Roderick disregarded this as being factual (or simply did not care), he had numerous children. Freddy was born first to Annabel Lee. As Frederick grew up, he married Morella/"Morrie", and had a daughter, Lenore.
The Fall of the House of Usher[]
Frederick is shown to have grown into a miserly man with addiction to substances and a focus of spending his time bowling, knowing that he will be the heir to the Usher fortune after his father's death. After an altercation, his wife, Morrie, is invited by his brother to a high-end orgy as revenge for Frederick insulting him.
Morrie attends in secret, and is severely maimed by a combination of acid and chemicals which kills his brother. Morrie is kept on life support, and it is later revealed that Freddy had been sedating Morrie to keep her quiet about supposed infidelity. Freddy becomes responsible for demolishing the club which served as the venue which killed his brother. This comes after Freddy is the sole heir of the Usher family, and as such becomes chair of the Usher family's corporate board.
Freddy goes ahead with the demolition, but before doing so he extracts Morrie's teeth to ensure she never talks again. At the demolition site, Freddy enters the site and takes a bump of what he believes are his stimulant before urinating on the site of his brother's death. However, it is revealed that Verna had distracted him so that he would instead take the sedatives he had been giving Morrie. This results in full bodily paralysis, and Verna using Freddy's voice to authorise the demolition with Freddy inside. Freddy is brutally killed after swinging debris disembowels him as a pendulum, before ultimately being crushed to death.
Trivia[]
- Frederick's death is based on The Pit and the Pendulum.
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