Details

Release year: 1964

Storyline

A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.

Top credits

Directors

Roger Corman

Writers

Cast

Vincent Price — Prince Prospero
Hazel Court — Juliana
Jane Asher — Francesca
David Weston — Gino

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Did you know

• Jane Asher asked Roger Corman if a friend could visit the set and join them for lunch. She explained that her friend was a musician who was about to do his first gig in London that night. At the end of lunch, Corman wished him good luck with his concert. Corman had never heard of Paul McCartney until he read of the concert's success in the next day's newspapers.

• Hop-Toad and Esmeralda were drawn from Edgar Allan Poe's short story "Hop-Frog." That story was inspired by an actual incident in 1393, where French King Charles VI and five of his lords dressed and chained themselves as "wild men" at a masquerade, and their costumes caught fire from a stray spark. Four of the lords died, and the incident became known as the Bal des Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men).

• At the end of the movie, Red Death meets with other deaths, embodied in different colors. Each one represents diseases of the Middle Ages: * Black Death: Black Death * Golden Death: Leprosy * Violet Death: Porphyria * Blue Death: Cholera * Yellow Death: Yellow Fever * White Death: Tuberculosis * Red Death: is a made up plague by Poe