Talk:The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)

Screenshot ?
As the film is "noted for its opulent colour scheme", why is this illustrated by a photo in black and white? Is this in fact a screenshot at all? Jheald 12:11, 7 November 2007 (UTC)


 * It is a colour movie?! That would have totally shocked me when I will see it, I have been expecting old school black & white film from the sixties. I suppose it is because in those days press material was most often released in black and white. ¨¨ victor   falk  01:01, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

It was filmed in vivid color by famous cinematographer/director Nicolas Roeg. All of the Corman "Poe" films were in color. The article mentions a Dell comic book based on the movie but I seem to remember also back in '64 or '65 my Dad giving me a paperback novelization of the film from Ace or Lancer or somebody like that. I remember my mother not being too thrilled about the gift because I was only 9 years old. I might be thinking of another movie (if I'm wrong) but I'm definitely not confusing the book I was given with a comic book.DAC1956 (talk) 17:51, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

Hop-Frog
"The screenplay by Charles Beaumont and R. Wright Campbell was based upon an 1842 short story of the same name by American author Edgar Allan Poe."


 * It contained also elements of other Poe stories, especially that of "Hop-Frog".--80.141.185.103 (talk) 15:38, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

“Broadcast on American Television”
What is the point of mentioning that it has been broadcast on American TV? It isn’t felt necessary to mention that it has been shown in American cinemas, so why TV? It’s been shown on TV elsewhere too, so it isn’t exactly remarkable. If it had been banned, or with-held from TV in that market, only to be shown after many years, well that might be worth a note, but there is nothing here to suggest that that was the case… It makes it sound like America has done something unusual in broadcasting it, and likewise the mention of a DVD release makes it sound like that has only happened in the US. Jock123 (talk) 07:57, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Seconded and (finally) acting upon. Lee M (talk) 03:06, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

Unbalanced
The plot description is too long and there should be info on box office and critical reception. Lee M (talk) 03:08, 25 April 2012 (UTC)

The "Deaths" In the Final Scene
I see there is a link to the "White Death" (Tuberculosis) and the "Black Death" (Bubonic Plague). Should not the "Blue Death" link to Influenza (as it is referred to here: http://www.jhsph.edu/news/magazine/archive/Mag_Fall04/prologues/index.html)? 50.120.90.227 (talk) 05:29, 20 July 2012 (UTC)JMc


 * Further to the above, does anybody know who voices the other Deaths? I'm pretty certain that Bernard Lee was one of them. ("From Cathay and beyond...") Lee M (talk) 00:56, 7 July 2018 (UTC)

Piggybacking onto a very old discussion. I've removed the links to rabies, tuberculosis, etc. There is no reason to think that the other "deaths" referred to those diseases specifically. Although Black death and White death are established, the Red Death in the film bears no resemblance to rabies. As in the story, it appears to be entirely fictional. Suggesting that the purple figure represents porphyria and so on appears to be pure speculation. Hell, porphyria isn't even contagious. Instead, it seems clear that the colours are an echo to the coloured rooms that were part of the original story (and only partly represented in the rooms included in the film). Matt Deres (talk) 21:13, 4 May 2020 (UTC)