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Overview

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Director:
Roger Corman
Writers:
Charles Beaumont (writer)
R. Wright Campbell (writer)
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Release Date:
24 June 1964 (USA) more
Genre:
Horror more
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! more
Plot:
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land. full summary | add synopsis
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(2 articles)
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Pretty Good for the Genre more (57 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Vincent Price ... Prince Prospero
Hazel Court ... Juliana
Jane Asher ... Francesca
David Weston ... Gino
Nigel Green ... Ludovico, Francesca's father
Patrick Magee ... Alfredo
Paul Whitsun-Jones ... Scarlatti
Robert Brown ... Guard
Julian Burton ... Señor Veronese
David Davies
Skip Martin ... Hop Toad
Gaye Brown ... Señora Escobar
Verina Greenlaw ... Esmeralda
Doreen Dawn ... Anna-Marie
Brian Hewlett ... Lampredi
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Additional Details

Runtime:
89 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Pathécolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
Certification:
Germany:16 | Finland:(Banned) (original rating) (1972) | Finland:K-16 (1988) | Finland:K-18 (re-rating) (1972) | Portugal:M/16 | Argentina:16 | Norway:16 (cut) | USA:Unrated | UK:X (original rating) | UK:15 (video rating)
Filming Locations:
London, England, UK

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Trivia:
Roger Corman had originally wanted this to be his second "Poe" picture following the success of House of Usher (1960). He passed it over because he felt that certain plot elements were too close to Ingmar Bergman's recent _Seventh Seal, The (1957)_ . more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Towards the end of the movie before Prospero sees the man in red, you see a blond woman dancing from left to right, the frame then jumps and the blond woman is once again on the left without having walked by. more
Quotes:
Francesca: You had me take off my cross because it offended...
Prospero: It offended no one. No - it simply appears to me to be discourteous to... to wear the symbol of a deity long dead.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Two Masters' Eyes (2003) (V) more

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12 out of 13 people found the following comment useful.
Pretty Good for the Genre, 17 February 2002
7/10
Author: gbheron from Washington, DC

A reviewer linked to this site described "The Masque of the Red Death" as Bergmanesque. A Roger Corman film Bergmanesque? Since I've only seen one Ingmar Bergman film, and it bored me silly, this was not much of an endorsement.

When I was a kid and Corman's Edgar Alan Poe adaptations were new, they scared the be-jeebers out of me. So would have "The Masque of the Red Death". After watching the movie recently, I didn't gain any insight into Mr. Bergman's film style, but I was entertained. And happily, the movie is free of the campy acting that seeps into so many of the Corman opus. Especially good is Vincent Price as the Satan-worshipping Prince Prospero, in whose castle his debauched guests wait out the plague that is ravishing the countryside. Dark and grotesque, this is an excellent example of Corman's work. Actually, one of the best I've seen.

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