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The Masque of the Red Death

1964

Roger Corman

Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston ...

6.5

2,796

Horror The Masque of the Red Death (1964) is Roger Corman's, and most people's, choice as the best of the Edgar Allan Poe pictures. Masque offers the expected creepy atmosphere and violence against peasants, plus metaphysical ponderings and pointed satanic cruelty. (Corman was operating as much under the influence of Ingmar Bergman as of Edgar Allan Poe.) Nicolas Roeg's color cinematography and Daniel Haller's elaborate production design would ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Corman’s formal artistry and conviction on a limited budget look more impressive than ever (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Don Druker Chicago Reader	"A work of consummate imaginative power and originality (...) This is both beautiful and horrifying, with a fine sense of ambiguity and a wealth of subtleties."	POS
United States	Eugene Archer The New York Times	"The film is vulgar, naive and highly amusing, and it is played with gusto by Mr. Price, Hazel Court and Jane Asher"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Milne Time Out	"It looks stunningly handsome, with Nicolas Roeg's camera providing alluring effects (...) It is also graced by an intelligent script"	POS
United States	Variety	"Roger Corman has garmented his film, lensed in England, with production values. His color camera work, his sets, music and plot unfoldment itself (...) establish an appropriate mood"	POS
United States	TV Guide	"One of the best and most ambitious of the Roger Corman Edgar Allan Poe series (...) It boasts a magnificent performance from the always wonderful (and often hammy) Vincent Price."	POS

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