Although he is remembered today primarily for his adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, he directed three dozen films and was an influential critic of literature and film from the early 1920s through the late 1940s.
Aínda que na actualidade é recordado principalmente pola súa adaptación de A caída da casa Usher, de Edgar Allan Poe, Epstein dirixiu tres ducias de filmes e foi un influente crítico literario e cinematográfico entre as décadas de 1920 e 1940.