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- 1964
- Not Rated
- American International Pictures (AIP)
- 1 h 29 m
- 1964
- Not Rated
- American International Pictures (AIP)
- 1 h 29 m
Summary A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.
Directed By: Roger Corman
Written By: Charles Beaumont, R. Wright Campbell, Edgar Allan Poe
- 1964
- Not Rated
- American International Pictures (AIP)
- 1 h 29 m
- 1964
- Not Rated
- American International Pictures (AIP)
- 1 h 29 m
The Masque of the Red Death
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Summary A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.
Directed By: Roger Corman
Written By: Charles Beaumont, R. Wright Campbell, Edgar Allan Poe
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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This is both beautiful and horrifying, with a fine sense of ambiguity and a wealth of subtleties.
Marvellous, macabre horror story from Corman's Edgar Allan Poe series. Vincent Price is a diabolical delight, his 12th-century Italian tyrant Prince Prospero a worthy model for Machiavelli. [21 Feb 2004, p.53]
No stranger to sneaking left-wing politics into his genre films, Corman emphasizes the struggle between the callous haves and the suffering have-nots, while Price’s performance teases out the story’s seediest elements.
Less polished than The Tomb of Ligeia, but still the best and most ambitious of Corman's Poe cycle.
The film is vulgar, naive and highly amusing, and it is played with gusto by Mr. Price, Hazel Court and Jane Asher. As for Mr. Corman, he has let his imagination run riot upon a mobile decor singular for its primary color scheme. The result may be loud, but it looks like a real movie. On its level, it is astonishingly good.
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Production Company
Alta Vista Productions
Release Date Jun 24, 1964
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating Not Rated
Tagline LOOK INTO THIS FACE - SHUDDER... at the blood-stained dance of the Red Death! TREMBLE... to the hideous tortures of the catacombs of Kali! GASP... at the sacrifice of the innocent virgin to the vengeance of Baal!
