June 24, 2022

This Day in Halloween: Roger Corman's "The Masque of The Red Death" premieres in London and Los Angeles in 1964. / Illustration by Allen Sison

The Masque of the Red Death premieres in London and Los Angeles in 1964. Directed by Roger Corman — the seventh of his eight Poe-based films — co-written by Charles Beaumont, and starring Vincent Price, the film doesn’t do as well as the others but is regarded as some of Corman’s and Price’s best work. 

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