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The Masque of the Red Death / The Premature Burial | 
| Director: Roger Corman
Actors: Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, David Weston, Nigel Green
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Category: DVD
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Rating:  49 reviews
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 169 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0792853148
UPC: 027616878212
EAN: 9780792853145
ASIN: B000068TPE
Theatrical Release Date: March 7, 1962
Release Date: August 27, 2002
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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
Description
The Masque of the Red Death: Death and Debauchery reign in the castle of Prince Prospero (Vincent Price), and when it reigns... it pours! Prospero has only once excuse for his diabolical deeds--the devil made him do it! But when a mysterious, uninvited guest crashes his pad during a masquerade ball, there'll be hell to pay as the party atmosphere turns into a danse macabre! The Premature Burial: Talk about a tortured artist! Oscar winner Ray Milland is Guy, a medical student and painter whose obsessive fear of being buried alive compels him to build himself a tomb with a view, equipped with everything he can think of to escape death. But it's when his long-suffering wife convinces him to destroy the tomb that he finds himself in the gravest danger!
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 This is your hell November 3, 2008
moonlighteye77 (San Diego, CA United States)
"Masque of Red Death" is definitely the best of the Corman/Price/Poe series. While many point out the well-budgeted, lavish set in comparison to the previous films, I believe this one is superior based on the story and solid characters alone.
It departs from the formula of the others in the series by being more tightly focused, more sinister, and the least camp of them all. It is refreshing to see Price maintain a sinister voice with his character that leaves little room for calling him "campy" or overdone. It's also nice that, as Prospero, he is not the usual loner, isolated in a decaying castle and pining over some lost love that still haunts him. This film moves away from that yet still utilizes the Vincent Price mannerisms we all love, but laser-focused and more potent with a singular character type.
The Man in Red's presence and voice is perfectly chilling and gives this picture much more weight with his mystery, measured philosophy, and subtle power.
the masque of the red death October 30, 2008
Alan Norris
apart from it being the wrong region although not the retail fougt
but mine. the service was very quick and the item was undamnge had been the rigth region i probley give 5 stars
Double Your Terror October 23, 2008
Justin Erik Farrow
[This review is part of my 31 days of Halloween series.]
This is a fantastic double-your-horror bill.
MASQUE OF THE RED features B horror flixs luminaries Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher & Nigel Green under the equisite direction of Roger Gorman. I use the designation "B" lovingly & in homage to Roger Gorman's frugal ways in making these movies not only possible, but also making them forever remembered.
The plot is simple. Plague is ravaging the countryside & the only place of safety is in a Satanic prince's castle. Well, his quests think it's safe, but they are really going from the pot into the fire. In addition to the acting & direction & script, other outstanding elements in this movie are the costumes & the splendid use of color, the choreography, and the strange dream sequence.
PREMATURE BURIAL stars veteran Ray Milland & Hazel Court. The plot revolves around the very real fear people had of being buried alive at the end of the Victorian era--well, just about everybody was buried alive at the end of the Victorian era, but that's a whole other tale of terror. I remarked about this in my review THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER because this fear figured in that plot too, but it takes center stage in PREMATURE BURIAL.
Before the 20th century the process of death & decomposition was little understood. For example, the belief in vampirism was in part fueled by the fact that some exhumed bodies still looked lifelike, the nails appeared to have grown because the tissue around them had retreated; in like manner the teeth appeared longer & blood seemed to be on the lips as another stage of the natural process. When people suspected someone of being a vampire, they opened the grave & saw all this & when they drove a stake in the chest sometimes the body seemed to groan as air was forced into the chest gavity.
These signs also caused people to think that premature burial was more prevalent than it ever could have been--or at least one would hope. Again, some corpses from graves that were open for one reason or another appeared to have, in fact, been buried alive--all beause of the ordinary process of decomposition.
In the film Ray Milland's character has the fear big time & his efforts to prevent being accidentally buried alive are trully obsessive & appropriately creepy.
Both these films are outstanding dark flowers of their genre.
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Red Death is among us.............. October 17, 2008
George Carabetsos (Chicago Ridge, IL USA)
Great classic to own. Remeber seeing this on tv as a kid. Vincent Price did a excellent acting job as always. Filmed in a creepy backround. A satanist with a uninvited guest. Premature Burial is just as good. Both films would make a late night scare!
Wonderfully cheesy Satan worshipping flick September 8, 2008
Chris Wood (UK)
While this bears only slight resemblance to Edgar Allen Poe's story, it's a fine piece of B movie schlock, with Vincent Price in his sinister element. It's superb fun and well worth the money.
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