Edgar Allan Poe+ Vincent Price
+ Roger Corman.
How can you avoid combination
of terror like that where darkness, decay and doom dominates! When subjects of
the kingdom suffering from Red Death (plague), the tyrannical & Satan
worshipping Prince named Prospero and his degenerate sycophant courtiers are
safeguarded in a luxurious castle. But how long they remain protected against
the destiny of death. The film has quite a few flaws but Corman did brilliant
job here much like a seasoned gothic champion. The highlight of the film is as
expected- the absolutely awesome act of Vincent Price. The man is really
anatomy of terror in his heydays! Towards
the end, the film resembles slightly with Bergman’s much celebrated scene of ‘The Seventh Seal’ where the prince
has face to face with the messenger of death, but that’s the only matching
element.
Recommended for fans of old
school horror.
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