The Masque of the Red Death

AroView: The best of Corman’s Poe adaptations allies the director’s playful yet virulent treatment to one of the writer’s most strongly allegorical stories.

Also in one of his finest hours, Vincent Price eats up the baroque scenery as a sadistic Italian nobleman of the 12th Century, surrounded by decadence and deceit, who decides to host an aristocratic ball at the height of a virulent plague. As his wife, Hazel Court, in full Gothic goddess mode, strikes a memorable pose.