Chills down your spine

(WARNING... Spoiler?) I don't know if I'm adding a spoiler here or not, I might be, so I added a warning.


I have to agree. I recorded it from the TCM channel early Saturday, August 11 (I put 'early' because it was part of a Vincent Price movie block they were showing all Friday night and the next morning) it was the first time I'd ever seen it and as I watched, the movie was so intense that I got chills. Price did Prospero's role wonderfully.

If Price didn't win a major award for his roles in this, he should have. (I say 'roles' plural because I notice him playing another role at the end) I think everyone who worked on this deserved a major award.
I like how they added the ending quote from the book: "And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

I think this movie is much scarier than the other Corman Poe adaptations because it seems so dark and uncompromised. There is a "love interest," I suppose, but it certainly isn't given the same amount of attention as in a movie like House of Usher. This is a movie about satanism, death, immoral decadence, the absence of God...deep stuff for a drive-in chiller!

What's the Spanish for drunken bum?

The movie isn't so much scary as it is disturbing. I found the most disturbing elements to be in the way the Prospero and the privileged elite acted. These people were downright horrible. Making it scary is the fact that it showcases just how evil human nature can really be. We like to ignore this element of life because it is disturbing, but the degree of vileness inherent within the human race seems to know no bounds. The Red Death was depicted as uncompromising and subject to nothing, whether the claims of faith made by the heroine or the claims of dominion through Satan that came from Prospero. There was no Satan to save Prospero any more than there was a God to save the Christian believers. There was only the Red Death.

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Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?

It was not really a scary film although one of the characters seems to have a bad acid trip!

Its that man again!!

To me, the scariest part is how coldhearted and cruel Prospero was. He had absolutely no compassion whatsoever and no regard for human life; exactly how I picture Satan. I loved the ending and how surreal it was. The part where Alfredo was burned alive and people cared very little, continuing to party anyways, was rather disturbing. It doesn't seem like your straightforward, stereotypical horror movie. It is very unique and very deep.

Not bad - 7.5

"She let me go."
~White Oleander