The Masque of the Red Death

A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.

Cast

Vincent Price

as Prince Prospero

Hazel Court

as Juliana

Jane Asher

as Francesca

David Weston

as Gino

Nigel Green

as Ludovico

Patrick Magee

as Alfredo

Paul Whitsun-Jones

as Scarlatti

Robert Brown

as Guard

Julian Burton

as Señor Veronese

David Davies

as Lead Villager

Reviews

John Chard

Bold, Daring, Lurid. Visually appealing and trippy in its telling, The Masque of the Red Death is a very acquired taste. Directed by Roger Corman, the film stars Vincent Price as the diabolical Prince Prospero who holds fear over a plague infested peasantry while jollying it up in his castle. T...

Wuchak

***Castles, peasants, diabolical princes, plague, death and Vincent Price*** During what appears to be the late Medieval era in (presumably) Britain, pompous Prince Prospero tyrannically reigns, terrorizing the serfs, while holding up in his castle with other “royals” during the plague of the Re...

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