Tag: The Masque of the Red Death
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The Fall Of The House Of Usher Review: Mike Flanagan’s Latest Is Succession Meets Edgar Allan Poe
What if Edgar Allan Poe had penned “Succession“? The result might be “The Fall of the House of Usher,” the latest streaming terror from Mike Flanagan (“Midnight Mass“). Flanagan, once again working with his usual stable of players, takes a “shut up and play the hits” approach to Poe here, dipping into the legendary author’s…
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The Masque of the Red Death review – horribly apt Poe adaptation
Roger Corman’s 1964 cult classic about a medieval pestilence closing in on a decadent count played by Vincent Price has uncomfortable resonanceRoger Corman’s 1964 movie The Masque of the Red Death is taken from Edgar Allan Poe’s eerie tale from the medieval mist, about a plague closing in on the castle of a cruel and…