![]() ![]() ![]() The seventh entry in Corman's so-called "Poe Cycle", the film greatly expands upon the original story and combines it with another Poe work, "Hop-Frog", as well as aspects of the French tale "The Torture by Hope" by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. He sends out invitations to other nobles in the area to attend a masquerade ball at his castle, devoted to vice of all sorts, in an effort to stave off the Red Death, unaware that it has plans of its own. When he discovers that the Red Death-a plague that causes its victims to bleed from every pore of their skin-has arrived in a local village, he takes captive three poor but healthy individuals-Francesca (Jane Asher), her father Ludovico (Nigel Green), and her lover Gino (David Weston-and orders the rest of the village to be burned to the ground. In medieval Italy, Prince Prospero (Price) is a wealthy, tight-fisted despot who rules over his land with cruelty, justifying his behavior through his devout faith in Satan. The Masque of the Red Death is a 1964 film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's story of the same name, directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price. ![]() "The way is not easy, I know, but I will take you by the hand and lead you through the cruel light into the velvet darkness." note Neither the catacombs of Kali nor the vengeance of Baal are actually mentioned in the film. ![]()
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