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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792853145
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792853148
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitledSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: D1003680D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 27, 2002
Running Time: 169 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: March 07, 1962
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Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 09/09/2008 Run time: 169 minutes Rating: Nr
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The Masque of the Red Death (1964) is Roger Corman's, and most people's, choice as the best of the Edgar Allan Poe pictures. Masque offers the expected creepy atmosphere and violence against peasants, plus metaphysical ponderings and pointed satanic cruelty. (Corman was operating as much under the influence of Ingmar Bergman as of Edgar Allan Poe.) Nicolas Roeg's color cinematography and Daniel Haller's elaborate production design would be stellar in any Hollywood A-movie; the mono-colored rooms of the prince's castle are a startling effect. Vincent Price is in fine fettle as Prince Prospero, the devil-worshipping sadist who throws lavish parties while the countryside is ravaged by the plague.
The Premature Burial (1962) substitutes Ray Milland in the usual Price role. He's a snarky landowner (with a sideline in art--dig those mod paintings) haunted by the fear of being buried alive. This single-minded focus limits the film, but it also adds to the smothering sense of anxiety that prevails throughout its unhealthy scenario. Luscious Hazel Court is Milland's new missus, and old-school cameraman Floyd Crosby proves his facility for photographing women in a classical style. Lots of cobwebs-on-candelabra in the customary Corman-Poe manner, with special emphasis on Milland's crypt, with its supposedly foolproof exit schemes. --Robert Horton
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MGM Midnite Movies!
The Devil, you say? The Masque of the Red Death is the first feature of this flip-around DVD. Roger Corman directs and produces another Poe-related story, this time telling the story of the tyrant Prospero, played to its evil height by Vincent Price. He arrives at a village, ostensibly thanking them for harvest. In response they grumble and one guy tells him where he can take his thanks. Oops. Mayhem ensues.
Corman weaves quite the tapestry of ... Read More
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--and every good Christian needs to see MASQUE. Given enough cognac, even Poe would be happy with this film. It's such a sublimely tolerable delight -- the moral and the decadent done up in garish splendor and good humor (although if you give in to the humor while watching, how DARE you!). Surely Vincent Price is one of the ten best actors ever. Director, Corman; screenwriters -- names I've forgotten. One of the best lines of the movie? "I have survived my own sacrifice" (to Belial, of course). One ... Read More
Rating:  -
The Premature Burial (1962) was a well done four star Roger Corman production that I first saw in 1962 in New York. This film was another predictably good Roger Corman production with grand sets, costumes, story and acting. After rewatching all three of Roger Corman's Poe films for 1960 through 1962 I started asking myself how many times can you make a film about premature burial? If you think about it, the theme of Corman's first three Poe films all involved a creepy setting with crypts, an unwanted ... Read More
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Price and Corman were a wonderful working duo. And Corman's love for Poe's work shows. The Masque of The Red Death I think is one of Corman's best works, and is very artistic. Although I missed seeing Price in The Premature Burial, I was still enraptured with Milland's doomed character Guy, and worked very well in the role. An excellent gothic horror movie double feature worth seeing!
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Filmed in lush color, brimming with evil, and Vincent Price showing us he really did know how to act - all of these make Masque of the Red Death something very special.
Unfortunately Premature Burial should have remained the fate of the film of the same name. It was unceremoniously dug up to form a double bill for the Midnite Movies series. It would have merited 3 stars on its own, but drops to 2 stars because Masque totally eclipses it.
Sit back and enjoy Masque some evening ... Read More
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