{"id":11537,"date":"2016-10-31T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11537"},"modified":"2016-10-31T19:43:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T00:43:05","slug":"the-masque-of-the-red-death-1964-roger-corman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11537","title":{"rendered":"The Masque of the Red Death (1964, Roger Corman)"},"content":{"rendered":"

My third Poe\/Corman\/Price movie of the month, and not counting the ending of Pit and the Pendulum<\/a><\/em> when he psychotically turns into his Inquisition-torturer father, it’s the first time Price has gotten to be truly evil. He is all kinds of evil here, a Satanist who lets almost everyone in the nearby village die of plague then has the survivors shot, who cheers when his party guests are murdered, and entertains himself by letting a girl choose whether her father or her lover will be killed.<\/p>\n

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So much death in this one that it’s hard to keep track of whether the young lovers survive – maybe they don’t? Eventually the Red Death (Price vs. himself) creeps into the castle, bathing all the revelers in blood, then joins a rainbow of other Deaths outside. Kind of a celebration of sadism (complete with another Inquisition-torturer ancestor) in widescreen with colorful costumes and sets (and a giant clock with a battle axe pendulum), stabbings and swordfights and a murderous falcon. And a dwarf setting a man in a gorilla suit on fire.<\/p>\n

Jane Asher is appalled by Price’s murderous falcon:<\/em>
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Jane Asher is appalled by Satan-loving Hazel Court:<\/em>
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The peasant girl Price keeps by his side is Jane Asher (Deep End<\/em>) – she’s our audience surrogate whose main job is to look appalled. The attention paid to Jane pisses off Price’s main girl Hazel Court (Lenore in The Raven<\/em>), who tries to hold onto him through satanic ritual. The firestarting dwarf’s wife is upsettingly played by a seven-year-old dubbed by a grown woman. And Price’s horrible friend Alfredo is Patrick Magee (the victim-turned-torturer in A Clockwork Orange<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Magee, foreshadowing that he’s soon gonna be set on fire:<\/em>
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