The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film) The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film) The Masque of the Red Death is a 1964 horror film directed by Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price. The story follows a prince who terrorizes a plague-ridden peasantry while merrymaking in a lonely castle with his jaded courtiers. The screenplay, written by Charles Beaumont and R. Wright Campbell, was based upon the 1842 short story of the same name by American author Edgar Allan Poe, and incorporates a subplot based on another Poe tale, "Hop-Frog'". Another subplot is drawn from "Torture by Hope" by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam. It is the
Phantom of the Rue Morgue same story which had formed the basis of a 1932 horror film which stars Bela Lugosi. In France in the 1870s, a string of strange murders happen in the Rue Morgue. The authorities are baffled, but they do have one man who may have the answers, Prof. Dupin. When Dupin is approached by the police to help, he agrees. Soon a set of suspects are found, including a sailor named Jacques and a professor named Marais, who is involved in unauthorized (and bizarre) animal experiments. Phantom of the Rue Morgue Phantom of the Rue Morgue is a 1954 feature film