Dance of death (Masque of the red death)

[chuckolove]

Ring around the rosie, a pocket full of posie; ashes, ashes, we all fall down...

[ShyAwayPhantom]

@TheEXpothead Literature is meant to convey a message about reality. You must remember this movie is based on a book.

[TheEXpothead]

It's a fucking movie, you dont learn stuff from movies about reality. You watch them for fun. god people are stupid sometimes.

[abyssalanguish]

This is so fucking awesome !!! Movies nowadays are hopeless at creating this level of thick atmosphere and V.P. is beyond great, without a doubt one of the best horror actoris of all time.

[mac19971]

Gaddafi?

[sleeschaefer]

"Why should you be afraid to die? Your soul has been dead for a long time."

[i305guy]

I AM SO GLAD VINCET PRICE PLAYED THIS ROLE!

[arachnid55]

I'm an amatuer filmmaker and have made a new version of this movie where the Red Death appears in modern times. I wouldn't consider it theater worthy but feel free to check it out on my channel once it's finished. And this time there is NO worshiping satan!

[biutify]

@arachnid55 looking forward to it :)

[12billyboi]

Uhh They Need A REMAKE !

[roppasmoka]

i rented this on on demand on day when i was high. always loved it since.

[Nathan920]

I don't know if it's just me but when the Red Death said "You presumed too much" he sounded like Darth Vader

[TheJorgeFilms]

Vincent Price, The Master of Terror!

[thereddeath1100]

@TheJorgeFilms

actually its "edgar allen poe", the master of terror! and then "vincent price", the guy who always plays the vampire

[AlvMar0122]

I wonder.. if they re-make this movie, nowadays they could include better effects to make the deaths more graphic. Not that i like blood and all that, it just that in the story it felt that way when Poe described the syntoms of the plague.

[dinasaur2fly]

@AlvMar0122 I know I was wondering how they were gonna do all that, I guesss turning the people red works though lol

[megadork456]

Who played the character of the Red Death?

[JCRME32]

@megadork456

John Westbrook

[Hashplant47]

Christopher Lee as death? I think so.

[georgelee43211]

Don't drink the Kool-Aid[Lol]

[Ywyth]

Yes, me too. I had a completely different idea about how the scenery would look and the acting in my mind.

[Deepdesert]

my favorite vincent price movie!!!

[Iquey]

Yay! GOOD MOVIE! + good story.

[flametiger2]

can someone help me understand this short story? i dont get it at all

[flametiger2]

i dont understand this short story at all. can someone please help me understand it better? it would be a great help

[SpartanUnDead]

"And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."

THE END

[jonahbegone]

"That voice - it's familiar." Indeed. That well-modulated British voice of the Red Death is that of John Westbrook. You can see him in "The Tomb of Ligeia," another Roger Corman Poe adaptation; he has a bigger role.

[TheVick112]

U have to say the book was better the movie is nothing like the movie!

But it look cool for a old movie

[UrusaiBaka4400]

I need help i've re read this story so many times and i've no exact imagination of what the rooms look like. it says the colors of the room, the different colors of stained glass window panes that illuminate the hallways and windows that prevail at each sharp turn of the corridors.it is so hard to imagine the works of edgar allan poe and thanks for posting up the vid

[BoundInChains]

Tourniquet, the heavy metal band, used a quote from the story in one of their songs- "There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."

[RoberTastic]

totally lame.

[azzorroww]

@RoberTastic lame only if you don't recognize the rich chrachter developed by the script mask of... is really a chrachter study- a morality play.... today horror films need mistakenly effects here vicent carrys this film by himself alone

[Heavily9]

Why do people cry that the book was better? The short story 'Masque of the Red Death' only counted like 10 to 20 pages.

[julijalia]

spectacular

[BibLOVESICK]

I've imagined it so different. I'm kind of disappointed.

[CheeseWheel3]

I think the Red Death was suddenly so talkative and philosophical because, as he said, each man creates his own death. Prospero's death took on his characteristics because he was created by Prospero. Just my opinion.

[jackiemickie]

Great movie:::::::William Pootingturd.

[goodluckpeace44]

best actor in the world

[JCRME32]

Interesting that Prospero in his initial excitement reads into the Red Death's words. The Red Death tells him he comes for many but when Prospero asks "All?" he says "Not all," but he did not say "Not you."

[robrobusa]

How bad does this suck ? I am rightfully sorry that the shortstory by E.A. Poe is so sadly crippled in this picture!

[ShadowOfTheWave]

Yeah, what the fuck? I just read the story and I've never seen something so fucking pissed on.

The character of the Red Death is supposed to be mysterious and horrifying, not absurdly overdramatic and philisophical.

[jjobie]

Yes, this is typical of Corman's movies though. He takes "inspiration' from the Poe tale, and then does his own story.

[TheHaloChief117]

totally different than the book.

[goodluckpeace44]

who said the movie has to be like the book? cinema and novls are two different arts.

[aerol1027]

I wish they will revive this movie... Great movie by the way

[hillbby]

'You are not Bernelli'

[ayatolahmime]

no es muy apegado a la historia original .. pero buueeeno...

[frankbooth64]

He sounds a bit like Chris Lee. I need to watch this again. I remember it as being one of the better Poe/Corman/Price films.

[Onefromthedarkness]

i was thinking the same thing at first . i think his voice would be awsome as the red death

[PATTONM14A1]

You don't see horror like this anymore. It's subtle and disturbing. Today's horror is all about renanimated corpses or insane killers. This shows the most terrifying monster Death!

[JCRME32]

This is a great scene, and a great performance by John Westbrook. The one thing I think is a bit striking is that Prospero, though he reveres the prince of darkness...

When he sees the Red Death, whom he believes to be Satan, he forces Francesca to kneel, but he does not kneel himself before "his revered master" .

I'm not nitpicking or bashing the film, as the clips Ive seen look great. It's just something I noticed.

[PATTONM14A1]

You are right. This is a very a scene and John Westbrook's performance of the Red Death is amazing! Also Vincet Price also very good. The movie was just well written and well thought out.

[Nergaladdictchic]

I just LOVE the voice of the Red Death!!!! It has that unreal, unearthly, ethereal quality to it. It's deep, mellifluous, clear, and sexy!!!! John Westbrook had THE BEST voice ever!!!!

[mercede75]

There plot in this movie is very much changed. in the story it was closer to reality while in the movie it is way too symbolic. good dialogues but still nothing like the actual story

[tallguy921]

I have to write an essay about similarities and differences between "the masque of the red death" and "The fall of the house of usher" and i also need sybolism and figurtive language can anyone help me

[Strat85]

"each man creates his own god for himself, his own heaven his own hell" that line has got to be the most epic in all horror movies i've seen so far. red death pretty much informed us all what is the real truth behind all religions and all sets of beliefs.

[kittylass5]

Don't worry, heiwaalchemist, I don't hate you. That was funny. Sunburn, ha-ha. They also look like the girl ( I think Uma Thurman) in the movie 'The Fifth Element' with Bruce Willis. Only red, not blue.

[kittylass5]

I love both Vincent Price and Edgar Allen Poe!! I wish they were both still here.

[heiwaalchemist]

i know ! poe was such a brilliant writer !!

the dance of death makes the people look like they got a really bad case of sunburn (at least that what it looks like to me....don't hate!!)

[Nergaladdictchic]

Freaking crap! I wanna know who the voice of the Red Death is! it doesn't say

[8792489]

It was John Westbrook, who did the voice of the Red Death. He also stars in The Tomb of Ligeia, with Vincent Price again. Directed by Roger Corman, who also did this film.

[Nergaladdictchic]

Oh, OK. at first, I thought this was Boris Karloff it sounded so much like him. And then I was like, wait a sec, that's not him....

[tenterden16]

Spot On.

[UndeadAngel993]

It was almost nothing like the original.

....But goddammit, it was a good movie.

Vincent Price + Edgar Allan Poe = .....awesome.

[Archibles]

I've read a few comments saying how the film differs from the books, and, yeah, it does, but then again, so do loads of films - particularly the older ones, for example, the Fall of the House of Usher, was changed drastically, and Rebecca had many plot points changed. Doesn't stop them from being FANTASTIC films, though. So just go with it, or don't watch them.

[monkeyman0375]

so dumb. not anything like the short story

they got it all wrong

[kharhaz3]

It's true; it's completely different.

It seems pretty damn good, though.

[wisecracker03]

I no longer have this movie. This was something I rented from the local library.

[avolitekitesvara]

ha..ha so true death has no master death comes for all even satanists i love this movie

[wwe3fancena]

wheres the blue room i thought there was a blue room

[sonicburn30]

Do they have remake version of this movie?

[fremlinskent]

NO!!! Don't do it!

[slappy6817]

The figure in the robe sounds like Christopher Lee.

[Jackalman99]

This guy reminds me of Jack Grimes, who wants to make a deal with Satan for supreme political power. He sounds like Grimes too, with Satat killed the other Gods and rules the world alone.

[EquilateralCircle]

do you have the whole movie or could you tell me where to find it? I've been looking everywhere for it D: btw thx for uploading this

[yewhooman]

Its a very good movie, and this is the best scene out of the whole movie!

Even though the movie was great, the book is always better. :)

[wisecracker03]

Actually the movie was based not so much on a book but rather on a short story by Edgar Allen Poe(story of the same name).

While the story was a good one this film went further in defining the character of Prince Prospero with his cynical outlook and equally cynical philosophy.

The movie made this character more realistic and interesting than his literary counterpart in Poe's story. It's a rare instance where a film actually improved on the story.

[Coasinder]

I wouldn't say the film improved the story since it changed it completely. Prospero wasn't supposed to be killed because of a devotion to Satan or his bad deeds, but because he tried to evade death and celebrated while his people suffered and died. The story is extremely allegorical.

[Yosimar]

@wisecracker03 you are wrong my friend, the film is not more interesting than the Poe´s story, the film is very good, but story is genial, you dont have any idea how important this is for the universal literature. in many ways the Corman´s film is a copy of a Ingmar Bergman`s film the "The Seventh Seal" (Det sjunde inseglet)...

[azzorroww]

@yewhooman i love it when vicent price says to his guests now act according to your natures theirs a certain if benign gay element in this line poes story had as much to say abot the illness of the mind as indeed physical pain as it is here with the subject of death a double layer the corruptyion of the mind and soul as to  physical pain of death both are chrachters in this film poe is brilliant

[DChatc]

This scene is so perfect, indeed, Corman's films with Price somehow always turned out better than usual (I personally think period pieces are Corman's passion, since their the only ones that came out any good).

The end with death is extremely philisophical and somewhat existential (Prospero is his own satan creating his own hell, he has noone else to blame but himself).

A real treat!

[elawton1980]

@DChatc- Vincent Price could pull off any role. A lot of these movies would have been downright awful without him- no offense to Roger Corman, though. It's just that Vincent was special- there has never been an actor like him before or since. His voice, his height, his chivalrous demeanor- just magical to watch in all these movies.

[lexiibabbii113]

did you upload the whole movie?

[Zitubos]

Many thanks for posting this. I've been looking for it for a long time!

[FallForeverx]

Well GCSE dance dramas gonna be fun

:)

Thanks

[FallForeverx]

Well GCSE dance dramas gonna be fun

:)

Thanks

[vitality91]

"God's dead! Satan killed him!"

[wisecracker03]

Your'e very welcome.

[caryhoneybee]

Thank you for posting this, very nice.