the audience applauded

Memorable, crazy movie

Admirable film.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

This is a horror movie and there is not one thing even to think it could be scary. What is wrong with people rating this high for a horror movie. It is like a dramatized play on a movie. I for one as using this movie an example of Price movies, it terrible and boring as heck. I can't see what people would rate this movie so flipping high, and rate actually more talking and action, lower than this movie.This one is not even a bother of watching all the way through. I never liked any of Price movies. Just can't see the fetish of Price. Same goes with John Wayne, and also Elvis Presley and so on. Well, to each their own. Good luck with liking these kind of movies.

This is a great movie. It is very scary. This movie has a great story line. It also has great acting. It also has great special effects. Based on the classic short story by Edger Allen Poe this movie will scary you out of the your mind. Village is being terrorized by an evil sprite called the red death. A prince of who worships the red death. Has a ball and give sanctuary to the rich. Vincent Price was a great actor Hazel Court was a great actress. 7.1 is underrating this classic horror film. Roger Corman is a great film maker. I need more lines and I am running out of thing to say. I am going to repeat myself sorry. Great movie great movie great movie.

So many of Vincent Price's movies involve the master in so much pain, hurt by the world in which he lived. This one is one of the better of the Poe pastiches. Here he plays the Prince Prospero, who has wild parties at his castle, while the riff raff live outside, dying from some bloody plague. What is great is the overconfidence of Price as he taunts and maligns and hurts people for pleasure. The Edgar Allen Poe story "Hop Frog" has been incorporated into this one. Since it was released in 1964, Roger Corman uses some rather surreal psychedelic stuff with fish eye lenses and red filters. We all know what is going to happen, but Price is a precious quantity to emotes all over the place. In his case he is forgiven.

Roger Corman is known for cheapo exploitation horror and producing more Oscar winning protégés than anyone else in film history.Corman also has an eye for a bargain and when he shot The Masque of the Red Death in England the deal he had with the film studio was that he could use existing sets made for bigger budget films. So this movie recycles the existing sets given the movie grandeur even though its a low budget film.However the film has more than an atmosphere provided by its scenery, its terrifically written giving it an eerie and cerebral quality, add some good acting led by Vincent Price who stays on the right side of ham as the local prince who worships Satan and who believe he and his wealthy friends are safely locked up in his castle while the Red Death sweeps the village.This is a film adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe novel that gives it justice.