The Masque of the Red Death
1964 · Movie · 89 min. · United Kingdom
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) is Roger Corman's, and most people's, choice as the best of the Edgar Allan Poe pictures. Masque offers the expected creepy atmosphere and violence against peasants, plus metaphysical ponderings and pointed satanic cruelty. (Corman was operating as much under the influence of Ingmar Bergman as of Edgar Allan Poe.) Nicolas Roeg's color cinematography and Daniel Haller's elaborate production design would be stellar in any Hollywood A-movie; the mono-colored rooms of the prince's castle are a startling effect. Vincent Price is in fine fettle as Prince Prospero, the devil-worshipping sadist who throws lavish parties while the countryside is ravaged by the plague.
Direction Roger Corman
Cast Vincent Price · Hazel Court · Jane Asher · David Weston · Nigel Green · Patrick Magee · Paul Whitsun-Jones · Robert Brown · Julian Burton · David Davies · Skip Martin · Gaye Brown · Verina Greenlaw · Doreen Dawn · Brian Hewlett · Sarah Brackett
Soundtrack David Lee
Screenplay Charles Beaumont · R. Wright Campbell · Edgar Allan Poe
Cinematography Nicolas Roeg
Original title The Masque of the Red Death
6.5
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