The most horrifying moments in Netflix's 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' ranked

It's easy to feel sorry for Tamerlane Usher (Samantha Sloyan) in episode six, "Goldbug." Her marriage to fitness influencer Bill-T (Matt Biedel) crumbles, she has an onstage breakdown while she tries to present her new app, and she accidentally kills herself alone at home. Oh dear.

After being haunted by visions of Verna (Carla Gugino) who taunts her about her life, Tamerlane starts smashing all the mirrors in her house with a fireplace poker. The entrepreneur gets shards of glass in her face and in her feet in a couple of wince-worthy moments.

But it all comes (literally) crashing down when Tamerlane shatters the mirror above her head, which causes a huge shard of glass to fall and stab her in the throat. She even gets impaled on glass that was already on the bed when she falls onto the mattress. Ouch.

Tamerlane's death isn't a blood-soaked affair, but it definitely leaves a mark.

Although Frederick Usher (Henry Thomas) seems like a relatively harmless (if slightly doofy) member of the family at first, his sinister side comes out after he learns that his wife Morella (Crystal Balint) was at his illegitimate younger brother Prospero's orgy party.

Convinced that his wife was unfaithful to him, he tortures her while she's recovering from the horrendous burns that cover her whole body (more on the cause of those injuries later). He even takes a pair of pliers to her face to punish her at one point.

But Verna punishes Frederick in turn when he has the Fortunato warehouse where Prospero's doomed party took place demolished. The mysterious woman paralyzes him with cocaine laced with a chemical, leaving him frozen in place as the building comes down around him.

One piece of debris slowly cuts through Frederick's body as it swings above him, eventually bisecting him. It's a powerful scene because it's a moment of justice for Morella. But the idea of being paralyzed while something slowly cuts you in half is a terrifying thought.

By the time the series comes to a close, it's a safe bet that no one in the family is making it out unscathed – and that includes both Roderick (Bruce Greenwood) and Madeline Usher (Mary McDonnell).

Roderick actually kills his sister at their old house with poisoned whisky, seemingly to spare her from whatever Verna has planned. And he "honors" her with the same ancient Egyptian artifacts that the family acquired earlier in the series.

While we briefly see him preparing his sister's body, it isn't until her howling resurrection that we see the full extent of what Roderick did.

As Madeline bursts through the door to scare her brother and Dupin (Carl Lumbly) to death, it's clear that Roderick replaces his sister's eyes with blue jade stones. The jumpscare and her gory face will definitely catch viewers off-guard.

And oh look, there's some leftover eyeball dribbling down her face. Lovely!

Like other members of the family, video-game publisher Napoleon Usher (Rahul Kohli) is plagued by hallucinations in the series. In episode three, he even believes that he murdered his boyfriend's cat, Pluto, while he was high. And in episode four, "The Black Cat," Napoleon adopts a similar black cat from Verna to try and cover up his crime.

However, this new cat causes chaos in the apartment, even leaving dead animals in Napoleon's bed. But when he tries to give the cat back to Verna, it starts viciously biting and scratching him.

In a fit of rage, Napoleon gouges the cat's eye out with his bare hands. It's incredibly grim to see, especially for any animal lovers who might be watching. But what makes it worse is the sound of the cat howling in pain as Napoleon's thumb pries out its eyeball.

Just to really hammer it home, Verna also appears in front of Napoleon with her own eye hanging out of its socket.

Ultimately, Napoleon's desperation to kill the cat is the death of him, as he falls from his balcony after trying to grab the cat he sees on the railing.

Next up is the fate of Victorine LaFourcade (T'Nia Miller) and her girlfriend, Dr. Alessandra "Ali" Ruiz (Paola Nuñez) in in episode five, "The Tell-Tale Heart."

The couple develop a mesh sleeve that would keep a patient's heart pumping at a steady rhythm, regardless of any defect or disease they have. But Ali disagrees with Victorine's unethical approach to her research, and threatens to expose the family for its wrongdoings after she learns Victorine forged her signature on paperwork.

This pushes Victorine over the edge, and she accidentally bludgeons her girlfriend with a bookend.

In a disturbing attempt to try and save her, we later learn that Victorine performed surgery on Ali at home and put their mesh sleeve on Ali's deceased heart to keep her heart beating. Flanagan doesn't reveal this horrifying twist until Roderick comes to their home and finds a bloodied Victorine, driven mad by the chirping of the mesh device, in the room with Ali's mutilated body.

It's not overly violent since Flanagan chooses not to show the moment where Victorine actually cuts into Ali's chest and affixes the mesh, but Roderick discovering the grisly scene is still fairly shocking.

While the shot of the dead heart being forced to beat is pretty gross, Ali's lifeless face in the background while a deranged Victorine talks to her father makes the horror of the scene more impactful. It's only made worse when Victorine kills herself with a scalpel to the chest in front of Roderick after she realizes what she's done.

One of the show's sub-plots is the (later revealed false) allegation by Dupin that a mole in the family has been feeding the authorities information about Fortunato and all of its wrongdoings. Camille L'Espanaye (Kate Siegel) suspects her sister, Victorine, and breaks into her lab to try and find proof in episode three "Murder in the Rue Morgue."

While she's there, Verna, disguised as a security guard, chastises and taunts Camille for having so much hate for Victorine. In a moment of cockiness, Camille tries to take a picture of Verna to prove that she's real.

But Verna disappears as the camera flashes, and instead, Camille takes a photo of an escaped chimpanzee that had been experimented on by Victorine and Ali. This sends the creature into a frenzy and it mauls her to death.

Camille's body isn't discovered until the next day by lab technicians, who see her with her face torn to shreds and the chimpanzee sitting quietly among the blood and gore that has covered the lab. It might not be the worst death in the series, but it's a brutal one.

Right from the very first episode, Roderick is haunted by visions of a man in a jester outfit with a mask that is guaranteed to haunt your nightmares.

The jester shows up when the audience is least expecting it, which makes for the type of surprising jumpscares that Flanagan became famous for in his first Netflix show, "The Haunting of Hill House."

There are several memorable jumpscares scattered throughout the show, each guaranteed to fill the audience with dread. The final episode, "The Raven," reveals that Frederick and Madeline buried their boss Rufus Griswold (Michael Trucco) inside a wall on New Year's Eve in 1980 and left him to die.

The jump scares are a way of forcing Frederick to confront his own guilt over the things he's had to do over the years to make his family so successful. And boy, do they work.

The top spot of ick indisputably belongs to Prospero Usher (Sauriyan Sapkota) and his orgy at the old Fortunato warehouse. Oh dear, oh dear.

The youngest of Roderick's illegitimate children, Prospero lives a chaotic lifestyle filled with partying and drugs. He pitches the idea to start a club night for the rich and famous to let loose and do what they want in episode two, "Masque of the Red Death."

However, when the sprinklers are turned on to get the crowd wet and wild at the party's climax, the partygoers are instead soaked in all of the leftover toxic chemicals that had remained in the pipes. And because Verna has locked in everyone (save a few innocents she told to leave), the guests are left to burn and sizzle as the flesh melts off their bodies.

It's a jaw-dropping sequence, as the entire dance floor becomes a gooey, fleshy mess littered with melting bodies. Flanagan has never shied away from shocking gore in his projects, but the scale of the orgy scene is mind-bogglingly gross.