FREE Screening Tuesday, October 29th at 7:30pm!

Directed by the iconic B-filmmaker Roger Corman and starring Vincent Price, the story follows a prince who terrorizes a plague-ridden peasantry while merrymaking in a lonely castle with his jaded courtiers. The screenplay, written by Charles Beaumont and R. Wright Campbell, was based upon the 1842 short story of the same name by American author Edgar Allan Poe, and incorporates a subplot based on another Poe tale, “Hop-Frog”. Another subplot is drawn from Torture by Hope by Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam. (1964, 1h 30m)

“The film is vulgar, naïve, and highly amusing, and it is played with gusto by Mr. Price, Hazel Court and Jane Asher…on its level, it is astonishingly good.” – Eugene Archer, New York Times (1964 review)

“Unquestionably Roger Corman’s best film to date…” – The Monthly Film Bulletin (1964)

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