Masque of the Red Death (1989 Alan Birkinshaw film)

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.

Masque of the Red Death
Directed byAlan Birkinshaw
Screenplay byMichael J. Murray
Based onThe Masque of the Red Death
1842 story
by Edgar Allan Poe
Produced byAvi Lerner
Harry Alan Towers
StarringFrank Stallone
Brenda Vaccaro
Herbert Lom
CinematographyYossi Wein
Edited byJason Krasucki
Music byKobi Recht
Production
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Distributed by21st Century Film Corporation
Release date
  • November 9, 1989 (1989-11-09)
Running time
94 minutes
LanguageEnglish

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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  1. ^ "The Masque of the Red Death (1989)". letterboxd.com. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
  2. ^ Birkinshaw, Alan (1992-05-08), The Masque of the Red Death (Horror), Frank Stallone, Brenda Vaccaro, Herbert Lom, Michelle McBride, 21st Century Film Corporation, Breton Film Productions, retrieved 2021-01-31
  3. ^ Muir, John Kenneth (2011-10-06). Horror Films of the 1990s. McFarland. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-7864-8480-5.
  4. ^ Huckvale, David (2014-01-10). Touchstones of Gothic Horror: A Film Genealogy of Eleven Motifs and Images. McFarland. p. 163. ISBN 978-0-7864-5701-4.
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