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MovingPictureBlog found this 4/19/2008 on www.greencine.com [flag]
Synopsis Though based on two Edgar Allen Poe stories, Masque of the Red Death relies more upon its mood and atmosphere than its story values for its success. During a devastating 12th-century plague called "The Red Death," the decadent, devil-worshipping Prince Prospero (Vincent Price) holds court over a bizarre masked ball. Already established as a sadistic torturer, Prospero insists that his ... [link]

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R.I.P.: Hazel Court (1926-2008)
Published 4/19/2008 by Joe Leydon at MovingPictureBlog
As I confessed to Greencine.com a few years back: Throughout most of my impressionable adolescence, I had a serious crush on Brit actress Hazel Court. I think it had something to do with the acres of heaving décolletage she displayed in such movies as Curse of Frankenstein, The Premature Burial and Masque of the Red Death. To put it another way: Yes, she was the first big-screen hottie I was serious hot for.

Hazel Court, 1926 - 2008.
Published 4/19/2008 at GreenCine Daily
... and who went on to make dozens of guest appearances on American television, Ms Court had a long and varied professional life, including a second career as a sculptor. But she became best known for showing considerable cleavage and screaming bloody murder in movies like Devil Girl From Mars (1954), The Curse of Frankenstein (1957), Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961) and Roger Corman's treatments of three works by Edgar Allan Poe: Premature Burial (1962), The Raven (1963) and The Masque of the Red ...

Nicolas Roeg @ 80.
Published 14 days ago at GreenCine Daily
His most recent film, Puffball, didn't exactly win over the critics, but one sentence in the entry for cinematographer and director Nicolas Roeg in Wikipedia, at least as it stands now, does rather neatly sum up his... significance: "Contributing to the visual look of Lawrence of Arabia [second unit] and Roger Corman's The Masque of the Red Death, and co-directing Performance, he would later become the guiding force behind such landmark films as Don't Look Now, Walkabout ...