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| Masque of the Red Death | |
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| Directed by | Alan Birkinshaw |
| Screenplay by | Michael J. Murray |
| Based on | The Masque of the Red Death 1842 story by Edgar Allan Poe |
| Produced by | Avi Lerner Harry Alan Towers |
| Starring | Frank Stallone Brenda Vaccaro Herbert Lom |
| Cinematography | Yossi Wein |
| Edited by | Jason Krasucki |
| Music by | Kobi Recht |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | 21st Century Film Corporation |
Release date |
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Running time | 94 minutes |
| Language | English |
The Masque of the Red Death was a 1989 film directed by Alan Birkinshaw, starring Frank Stallone, Brenda Vaccaro and Herbert Lom, produced by Avi Lerner and Harry Alan Towers for Menahem Golan's 21st Century Film Corporation, from a script by Michael J. Murray. [1] [2] It was one of two otherwise unrelated films with the same title released that year.
The film is a slasher movie set in the 1980s, with little to do with Poe's work other than being set at a costume party themed after Poe's short story of the same name, and a reference to "The Pit and the Pendulum". [3] In Touchstones of Gothic Horror, David Huckvale states that the film may have been influenced by the short story "Duke of Portland" by Auguste de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam. [4]
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