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Masque of the Red Death
Masque of the Red Death
Directed by	Alan Birkinshaw
Screenplay by	Michael J. Murray
Based on	The Masque of the Red Death; 1842 story; by Edgar Allan Poe
Produced by	Avi Lerner; Harry Alan Towers
Starring	Frank Stallone; Brenda Vaccaro; Herbert Lom
Cinematography	Yossi Wein
Edited by	Jason Krasucki
Music by	Kobi Recht
Production; company	21st Century Film Corporation
Distributed by	21st Century Film Corporation
Release date	November 9, 1989
Running time	94 minutes
Language	English

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.

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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^ "The Masque of the Red Death (1989)". letterboxd.com. Retrieved 2021-01-31.
^ 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
^ Muir, John Kenneth (2011-10-06). Horror Films of the 1990s. McFarland. p. 164. ISBN 978-0-7864-8480-5.
^ 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.