The Masque of the Red Death is a 1964 Anglo-US 'Roger Corman' horror drama film. It features Vincent Price, Hazel Court, Jane Asher, Nigel Green, and Patrick Magee. The evil Prince Prospero, a medieval Italian prince, devoted to the pursuit of evil and the worship of Satan, enjoys the high life in his eerie country castle as the Red Plague destroys the peasant population in the surrounding land. Based upon the 1842 short story of the same name by US author Edgar Allan Poe.