I'm so far behind on writing up movies, I feel like I'll never catch up. But feeling that way makes me not even try, which is the only way to ensure that I never do catch up. So here goes.
Jan 18 movie: The Masque of the Red Death. Sometimes you're just in the mood for something deliciously awful, you know? Well, I do anyway. This filled the bill perfectly. I know I've said this before, but Vincent Price is kind of a sad figure to me. He was such a great actor, and he ended up making movies like this -- and this was one of the good ones. He always gave a certain dignity to his characters, no matter how stupid the movie was.
This was a very stupid movie, with only a tenuous connection to the Poe story. My favorite part is the very end, when the Red Death finishes up and meets up with his colleagues: the Yellow Death, the Green Death, the Purple Death, the Blue Death, etc. It's a colored Death convention!
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