The Movie: Masque of the Red Death (1964)
What Is It?: Roger
Corman hits his horror peak with this lavish adaptation of two Poe tales (“Hop
Frog” is the other). Corman receives A-list support from screenwriter Charles
Beaumont, cinematographer Nic Roeg, and stars Jane Asher, Hazel Court, Patrick
Magee, Skip Martin, and Mr. Vincent Price.
Why Today?: On
this day in 1809, Edgar Allan Poe is born.
