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The Masque of the Red Death (1964) Roger Corman

May 15th 2024

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Vincent Price challenges 'The Masque of the Red Death' on Criterion Channel

The Masque of the Red Death (1964) is to my mind the greatest of Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe films. Vincent Price, Corman’s favorite leading man for the Poe adaptations, trades in his haunting, haunted portraits to play the demented, debauched Prince Prospero. It is the height of the black plague and his castle is the sole sanctuary, but the price to enter is to become a plaything of the…

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Bad movie I have The Haunting 1963

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The Masque of the Red Death (1964) 🩸

Director: Roger Corman (Alta Vista Productions) Genres: Drama, Horror 🎭 Notes: Good Set Design, Satanic, Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation, Theatrical, Good story but masque costume theming was ick, end credit art

Review: This film I think has good parts, the theatrics in the depiction of the Red Death and his brethren are a great visual that you can see the inspiration from theater plays. The Set design is beautifully put together like a fairytale and the cinematography is creative with colour. The film has a dream-like quality to it and I've enjoyed Vincent Price in a number of his other Poe adaptations and he is truly despicable as Prince Prospero. However it is unfortunate this movie does suffer from the time it was made, with certain humor, costume choice and dialogue through the film that comes from a place of appropriation. I think this film is worth the watch but isn't without some pretty big issues. Overall I give The Masque of the Red Death (1964): Good...But has issues 😔

-Warnings for Folks- Cultural Appropriation/Racism: A character lists out costumes and says "Chinese" as a costume choice. The Nobles in the Masquerade sequence are all white and wear costumery versions of cultural garb from BIPOC countries (spotted Egyptian, Arab, African). There is also a scene where a character is performing a Satanic ritual and a number of Gods of Death from Egypt, South America, Africa, etc show up as if to connect them with Satan and the evil but could symbolize the impending Death. A character paints himself yellow with tribal-like markings on his skin and says he is dressed as someone from "Deepest Africa". Too Young: There is a character Esmerelda in the film that is played by a child ( Verina Greenlaw) who is meant to be a small adult with a grown woman's voice dubbed over. One of the men make a comment "wondering about every female in the household with an appearance of innocence" for her in a suggestive way which was gross to be said while looking at an actual 9 year old.

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A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the “Red Death” plague that stalks the land. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Prince Prospero: Vincent Price Juliana: Hazel Court Francesca: Jane Asher Gino: David Weston Ludovico: Nigel Green Alfredo: Patrick Magee Scarlatti: Paul Whitsun-Jones Guard: Robert Brown Señor Veronese: Julian Burton Lead Villager: David Davies Hop Toad: Skip Martin Señora Escobar: Gaye Brown Esmeralda: Verina Greenlaw Anna-Marie (as Doreen Dawne): Doreen Dawn Grandmother: Sarah Brackett Senor Lampredi: Brian Hewlett Dancer: Jenny Till The Man in Red: John Westbrook Film Crew: Producer: Roger Corman Screenplay: Charles Beaumont Screenplay: R. Wright Campbell Director of Photography: Nicolas Roeg Editor: Ann Chegwidden Casting: G. B. Walker Production Design: Daniel Haller Art Direction: Robert Jones Set Decoration: Colin Southcott ADR & Dubbing: Allan Morrison Special Effects: George Blackwell Camera Operator: Alex Thomson Costume Supervisor: Laura Nightingale Hairstylist: Elsie Alder Makeup Artist: George Partleton Associate Producer: George Willoughby Assistant Director: Peter Price Sound: Richard Bird Sound: Len Abbott Stunts: Peter Brace Stunts: Joe Powell Stunts: George Leech Short Story: Edgar Allan Poe Original Music Composer: David Lee Choreographer: Jack Carter Movie Reviews: John Chard: Bold, Daring, Lurid. Visually appealing and trippy in its telling, The Masque of the Red Death is a very acquired taste. Directed by Roger Corman, the film stars Vincent Price as the diabolical Prince Prospero who holds fear over a plague infested peasantry while jollying it up in his castle. The screenplay by Charles Beaumont and R. Wright Campbell is based upon a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe, while part of the film contains a story arc based on another Poe tale titled Hop-Frog. It’s the 7th of 8 Corman film adaptations of Poe’s works. Sinister yet beautiful (Nicolas Roeg genius like on photography), “Red Death” has proved to be the most divisive of all the Corman/Poe adaptations. Choosing to forgo blood in favour of black magic dalliance and general diabolism, the film is arguably the most ambitious of all Corman’s love affairs with Poe’s literary works. With Price gleefully putting gravitas of meanness into Prospero, the film also greatly benefits from the intelligent input to the script from Beaumont (many Twilight Zone credits). This is, strangely, an intellectual type of horror film, offering up observations on the indiscrimination of death and proclaiming that cruelty is but merely a way of life. God, Satan and a battle of faith, are all luridly dealt with as the story reaches its intriguing and memorable closure. It’s a very tough film to recommend with confidence, and certainly it’s not a film one wishes to revisit too often (myself having viewed it only twice in 30 years!). However, the one thing that is a cast iron certainty is that it’s unlike most horror film’s from the 60s. It’s also one of Price’s best performances. Gone is the camp and pomposity that lingered on many of his other horror characterisations, in its place is pure menace of being. A devil dealer shuffling his pack for all his sadistic worth. You may feel afterwards that you must have eaten some weird mushrooms, or that the last glass of wine was one too many? You are however unlikely to forget “The Masque of the Red Death” in a hurry. 7/10 Wuchak: ***Castles, peasants, diabolical princes, plague, death and Vincent Price*** During what appears to be the late Medieval era in (presumably) Britain, pompous Prince Prospero tyrannically reigns, terrorizing the serfs, while holding up in his castle with other “royals” during the plague of the Red Death. Hazel Court plays his seasoned nefarious babe in the castle whereas Jane Asher appears as his new interest, a virginal, God-fearing peasant girl. Produced & directed by Roger Corman for American International, “The Masque of the Red Death” (1964) is Gothic horror with a huge r...

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The Masque of the Red Death | Roger Corman | 1964

Verina Greenlaw, Skip Martin, Vincent Price, Patrick Magee, et al.

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Cult Movie Essentials: The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

Cult Movie Essentials: The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

Directed by Roger Corman, The Masque of the Red Death is based upon the 1842 short story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe it also entwines Poe’s “Hop Frog and Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam’s “Torture By Hope” into its subplots.

The film opens in medieval Italy on a mountain where we meet an ominous red cloaked figure shuffling tarot cards. The red-cloaked figure gives the woman a white rose,…

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The most popular portrayals of the younger Mary I Tudor. And all of the actresses in one collage. 

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The Masque of the Red Death | Roger Corman | 1964

Verina Greenlaw, Skip Martin

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Bad movie I have Father Goose 1964