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Directed by | Roger Corman |
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Based on | "The Masque of the Red Death" "Hop-Frog" by Edgar Allan Poe |
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Cinematography | Nicolas Roeg |
Edited by | Ann Chegwidden |
Music by | David Lee |
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Production company | Alta Vista Productions |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
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Language | English |
Box office | 121,794 admissions (France)[1] |
The Masque of the Red Death is a 1964 horror film directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price.[2] The story follows a prince who terrorizes a plague-ridden peasantry while merrymaking in a lonely castle with his jaded courtiers.[2] The screenplay, written by Charles Beaumont and R. Wright Campbell, was based upon the 1842 short story of the same name by American author Edgar Allan Poe,[2] and incorporates a subplot based on another Poe tale, "Hop-Frog". Another subplot is drawn from Torture by Hope by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.
It is the seventh of a series of eight Corman film adaptations largely based on Edgar Allan Poe's works made by American International Pictures.