Director
Roger Corman
Music (original)
David Lee
Cast
Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston
89'
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1964
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Drama, Horror
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Format:
DCP
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Dialogue:
Latin, English
Thanks to B-movie master Roger Corman, Roeg got his break as a director of photography on this wickedly colourful horror tale about a medieval prince who devises sinister methods to torment his prisoners while the Red Plague rages around him. The film’s finale—a masquerade ball—is an explosion of colour, rivaling even the most extravagant scenes in classic musicals and melodramas.
After years of working as an assistant camerman, Nicolas Roeg finally got the chance to step up as a full-fledged cinematographer (or director of photography), thanks to Roger Corman—the king of low-budget exploitation cinema. In the early 1960s, Corman directed an eye-catching cycle of eight Edgar Allan Poe adaptations for his production company, American International Pictures. Of these, this one is by far the most beautifully shot. For his first film in colour, Roeg embraced a flamboyant, almost expressionistic colour palette. Horror legend Vincent Prince plays a wicked medieval prince who, in his eerie castle—each room painted a different colour—devises sinister methods to torment his prisoners while the Red Plagues rages around him. What truly makes this grim film unforgettable, though, is the finale: a lavish masquerade ball, an explosion of colour that rivals the most extravagant set pieces in the musicals and melodramas of Vincente Minnelli.
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Credits
Directors
Roger Corman
Music (original)
David Lee
Cast
Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston
Scenario
Charles Beaumont, R. Wright Campbell
Director of Photography
Nicolas Roeg
Editors
Ann Chegwidden
Producers
Roger Corman
Production studios
Alta Vista Productions
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Dialogue
Latin, English
Countries of production
United Kingdom
Screenplay based on
"The Masque of the Red Death" (Edgar Allan Poe)
Year
1964
Filmography
Roger Corman
Five Guns West (1955), Apache Woman (1955), Day the World Ended (1955), Swamp Women (1956), Gunslinger (1956), The Oklahoma Woman (1956), It Conquered the World (1956), Not of This Earth (1957), Rock All Night (1957), Teenage Doll (1957), Carnival Rock (1957), Sorority Girl (1957), Naked Paradise (1957), The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957), Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957), War of the Satellites (1958), Machine-Gun Kelly (1958), Teenage Cave Man (1958), She Gods of Shark Reef (1958), I Mobster (1959), The Wasp Woman (1959), A Bucket of Blood (1959), Ski Troop Attack (1960), The Little Shop of Horrors (1960), House of Usher (1960), Last Woman on Earth (1960), Atlas (1961), Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Premature Burial (1962), The Intruder (1962), Tales of Terror (1962), Tower of London (1962), The Raven (1963), The Young Racers (1963), The Terror (1963), X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963), The Haunted Palace (1963), The Masque of the Red Death (1964), The Secret Invasion (1964), The Tomb of Ligeia (1964), The Wild Angels (1966), The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), The Trip (1967), Target: Harry (1969), Bloody Mama (1970), Gas! -Or- It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It (1970), Von Richthofen and Brown (1971), Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
Technical Specs
Format
DCP
