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Good concept, poorly executed.

Best movie ever!

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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.

I think this is a terrific classic that holds up brilliantly, and it's probably my favourite out of all the Hammer or Hammer-like movies that I've seen that have this particular theatrical look and acting style. It's still very compelling, the story is to me absorbing and the revelations impressive as they unfold. I find that more than any other themes that it's about, the picture seems to focus the most on that of the power of death, be it literal, metaphorical, or spiritual. Death is a concept that's hard to come to terms with, and in popular fiction throughout the ages we often see characters trying to weasel their way out of a date with the anthropomorphic personification of death by pleading with it, trying to strike a bargain, or failing that straight-up sealing themselves away and trying to avoid it all together, like the evil-spirited tyrant who features in this tale. It sees one such group of people holding up to escape death. And in this case it's a little different, because this isn't the typical skeletal reaper of souls in a billowing black cloak, but a very specific 'plague.' In fact it turns out there are many faces of it, a whole darn rainbow brigade of death! The effect of that closing scene could perhaps come have off as silly due to the bright colours contrasting with the solemnity of the moment if it wasn't all handled with such competence and awesome pathos. It's certainly a bit of an odd scene but I love it, it's very interesting and philosophical. I like the idea of Death not being good or evil neither god nor the devil, but a calm and ambiguous force of judgement. The movie stars the deliciously hammy and dashing Vincent Price as the wicked devil-worshipping Prince Prospero, and eventually as the Red Death himself. I find Price very impressive here, he's quietly commanding and cruelly villainous, but somehow also not an entirely unsympathetic character. A debauched clan of cavorting 'nobles' hide in a grand castle under the sway of Prospero while a horrific plague ravages the peasantry below. And when the Red Death does eventually show up in his fool's paradise, the prince is overjoyed because he believes it is his master Satan finally come to reward him for his life of ruthlessness as well as all the souls that he's corrupted in the devil's name, but he is sorely mistaken as Death informs him that he has already lost his soul piecemeal long ago through his evil deeds and beliefs, and that his day of reckoning has finally come. I also liked the actor who played "Hoptoad"(should really have been Hopfrog!), he had a great charismatic kind of voice, and the subplot of his character's revenge against the lecherous Patrick Magee was very well integrated into the rest of the movie. When I first watched it I was delighted to recognise that there were actually two Poe stories in one feature! The set designs and visuals are enchanting to look at, the colours really jump out at you. The ending where Red Death passes and spreads through the masqued ball is disorienting and magnificently staged. The overall effect of that climactic sequence is bizarre, but also beautiful and mesmeric to me... Thank you dearly, sorry if you don't care for my thoughts, but I've learned that for better or worse we each of us must all dance to the music of his own tune. One last thing, this movie also has got the coolest end credits that I have ever seen ever! Still a terrific watch and a wonderful movie.

Based on the Edgar Allan Poe story The Masque of the Red Death. This is one of the best Poe adaptions put on film.The wonderful Vincent Price is the evil and heartless Prince Prospero. Prospero is a man that is cruel to the peasants and his own 'friends' - the only thing he cares about is himself and his master.The imagery, costumes and sets are beautiful and compliments Poe's story very well. Charles Beaumont & R. Wright Campbell's screenplay captured Poe nicely. The one thing about Poe's story that has always stood out in my mind was the grandest of all masquerade balls - this film did it justice. A perfect ending.This is a movie that I believe lovers of Poe, Price and classic Gothic horror would like. I do recommend this film for viewing.9.5/10

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.