I don't know if it's just me, but I feel like that there are plenty of stories of evil princes or men joining the dark side, but not enough evil princesses or women joining the dark side.
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the “Red Death” plague that stalks the land.
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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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