American International Pictures
Directed by Roger Corman
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Blu-ray, Shout! Factory)
Satanist Vincent Price kidnaps pretty village girl Jane Asher when a plague ravages the countryside. Inside his cavernous castle, he hosts lavish dinner parties, masked balls and the occasional Satanic mass. He tries to convert Asher, a devout Christian, by way of argument and the harsh realities of man's condition. Death makes a visit, actually several of them, wearing robes of different colors. A subplot involving a dwarf and a child ballerina is from a different Poe story. Beautifully photographed in striking colors by Nicolas Roeg, it resembles a comic book from the early 1960s, both in plot and set design.
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