“The Fall of the House of Usher”

But when Flanagan, who had previously cast him as a ruthless lawyer in the Netflix horror miniseries “The Fall of the House of Usher,” offered him the role, Hamill didn’t hesitate, at least not outwardly.

Based loosely on the work of Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a riveting mixture of Gothic horror, eat-the-rich commentary and whodunit mystery.

The taciturn family lawyer Mark Hamill channels in “The Fall of the House of Usher” is another, although Danish is comparatively more polished, befitting his role as Lorraine’s delegate in most matters.

Seeing him in Mike Flanagan’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” a gothic-style horror series based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe, fits the audience’s expectation that Hamill spent decades carving out.

His turn in “The Fall of the House of Usher” comes after his work in “The Machine,” Bert Kreischer’s action-loopy and unapologetically dumb comedy where Hamill plays Bert’s father demanding and emotionally withholding father Albert who ends up accompanying his boy on an adventure with Russian mobsters.