Featured Audience Ratings

• Tsubaki S

  
  A well done adaptation by Corman, with good ol Vincent in the lead role.

• Bruce B

  
  From the MGM Midnite Movie Collection, this film produced by Alta Vista Productions in 1964 must have entertained many a people at the Drive In's across America. Vincent Price gives a stellar performance as Prince Prospero. as does Hazel Court who plays the beautiful Juliana. The… More
  From the MGM Midnite Movie Collection, this film produced by Alta Vista Productions in 1964 must have entertained many a people at the Drive In's across America. Vincent Price gives a stellar performance as Prince Prospero. as does Hazel Court who plays the beautiful Juliana. The film itself is about a plague that invades the Village of Cantina and the Prince takes wealthy into his castle for protection and to torment. Only let down was a young actress who played a ballerina and the voice was duped in. But picture story wise a 4 star film, and one of the better from the MGM Midnite collection.

• Matthew Y

  
  When I was in elementary school we used to have to pick a book from the library and do a report on it every month. I loved R.L. Steins Goosebumps series at the time but the books were so popular that the school banned them as subject matter. Being rather ticked off I went into the… More
  When I was in elementary school we used to have to pick a book from the library and do a report on it every month. I loved R.L. Steins Goosebumps series at the time but the books were so popular that the school banned them as subject matter. Being rather ticked off I went into the Horror section and grabbed the biggest, scariest looking book I could find which turned out to be a completed works of Edgar Allan Poe. Basically the point of this story is to iterate that I'm rather versed in Poe though I'm not a major fan of his. The Masque of the Red Death was one of the more ho-hum stories and it doesn't live up to the more provocative Poe films by Vincent Price and Roger Corman (House of Usher, Pit and the Pendulum). The focus of the film is more grim (Price's performance is less campy and more diabolical) with lavish sets and costume designs. The problem with the film to me is that it is a B-movie trying to mask itself as an A-list film. The reason why The Pit and the Pendulum is so iconic is because of the mood and atmosphere that work so well with Price's mustache twitching over-dramatics.