#prince prospero

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price as Prince Prospero

The Masque of the Red Death (1964) dir. Roger Corman

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[atomic-chronoscaph]

Vincent Price - The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

#vincent price #the masque of the red death #roger corman #60s horror #edgar allan poe #prince prospero #60s movies #sixties #1964

[chechula]

the Masque of the Red Death ♥

#the Masque of the Red death ♥ #prince prospero #edgar allen poe #the masque of the red death

[scenephile]

She has just married a friend of mine.

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[twistedtummies2]

The Price May Be Right - Number 4

Welcome to “The Price May Be Right!” I’ve been counting down My Top 31 Favorite Vincent Price Performances & Appearances! The countdown will cover movies, TV productions, and many more forms of media. We’re getting closer to the end now… Today we focus on Number 4: Prince Prospero, from Masque of the Red Death.

Alongside “Comedy of Terrors,” this is quite possibly my favorite Vincent Price movie of all time. It is, without any doubt, my favorite entry in the Corman-Poe Cycle of features from AIP. Combining elements of the titular story with another tale from Poe, “Hop-Frog” (here referred to as “Hop-Toad,” presumably so the character doesn’t sound like a children’s game), “Masque of the Red Death” is easily the most thought-provoking and philosophical of all the Poe movies. It’s a film that seems less interested in outright scaring you, and more interested in posing a lot of interesting and unnerving questions. It’s a film about faith, corruption, mortality, ethics, and karmic justice, and the way it presents its different themes and ideas is still just as interesting today as it was back when it was made. In fact, in some ways, I would argue this movie is stronger than it ever was before. Released in 1964 – the year after “Comedy of Terrors” – the story focuses on Price’s character, Prince Prospero. The Prince is the cruel and sadistic ruler of some unknown province in Italy, and the leader of a Satanic cult. When a plague known as the Red Death – which makes people sweat blood till they die from exsanguination – strikes his kingdom, Prospero summons all the members of his cult to his palace, and locks them all away inside his castle to try and escape the plague. Also involved is a young lady named Francesca, whom Prospero kidnaps after her father and fiancé each try to stand up to him. Prospero has all three brought to his castle, to try and devise some unusual punishment for the two men, all while he tries to teach Francesca the truth of the world, as he sees it. Prospero is a truly fascinating villain. In some ways, he is one of the most evil characters Price ever played: he is callous to the core, willing to stab virtually anyone in the back and showing neither pity nor remorse for any of the evil acts he commits. When people who think themselves his friends die either directly or indirectly due to his actions, he shows no recognition of the relationship they used to share. But at the same time, there is a deeper philosophy at work with him: Prospero’s belief is that people are inherently wicked, and that the world is a cruel place of injustice and despair. He believes that God is dead, and that Satan already rules the universe. So, he behaves in a manner he believes would please Satan, just the way any Christian tries to behave in a manner they believe would please God. There are glimmers of something less than totally evil inside Prospero, however. He seems to value true innocence, in a backwards sort of way, and shows respect for anyone who can match the fervor of his own horrible faith. His relationship with Francesca is truly intriguing: it’s a sort of twisted and warped take on “Beauty and the Beast,” as Prospero admires Francesca’s faith and purity. And it is true admiration: when one of his allies suggests he enjoys corrupting her, Prospero replies, “Not corrupting…instructing.” At the same time, while Francesca is frightened of Prospero and appalled by his actions, she does come to have a sense of understanding towards him and his cynical outlook on the world. She is the closest thing to love Prospero has ever felt, and he is someone she realizes is more than just a monster. Prospero also shows other signs of right thinking: he refuses to harm children, and whenever he kills people who might be afflicted with the red death, he seems to consider it a mercy. In my opinion, Prospero is one of the greatest movie villains of all time; an underappreciated cinematic titan of tyranny that really deserves more credit. And it’s just as much a testament to Price as an actor, as well as the writing and direction, that he is such a uniquely depraved and yet intriguing character. Vincent plays the character absolutely pitch perfect, rarely hamming anything up too much (I say “rarely” because…well…it’s Vincent Price), and giving Prospero an elegance and calculating intellectuality that belies his more sinister qualities. He balances the character’s vulnerabilities and cruel heartlessness splendidly, so that we do come to empathize with Prospero, despite his unholy and horrid ways. When this villain meets his defeat, it is satisfying, yet also saddening. That is a sign you have created a truly magnificent evildoer. Tomorrow, the countdown enters the Top 3!

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The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

#Prince Prospero #Edgar Allan Poe #Vincent Price #Jane Asher #The Masque of the Red Death #Roger Corman #1964 #GIF

[thegothiclitcoffeeshop]

Have you ever been scared by a customer, either on purpose or by accident

I mean we got customers like Adam who look pretty frightening in the right lighting, not to mention customers like Eric that like to hide in the shadows all the time

Funnily enough, one of the biggest fears is tripping over Victor (he'll lie down on the floor and pass out). I usually just yell for Henry (of the Clerval variety) or just gently nudge him out of the way with my foot.

Erik likes making sudden loud noises at the piano. And then he laughs when people jump.

Adam? Nahhh. Everyone loves him. He once startled Dorian by mistake and next thing you know, it's a hug-fest. Turns out Dorian likes enveloping hugs.

From Adam.

Yeah, don't try it otherwise.

Hyde once put on a red cloak and mask and scared the ******* out of Prince Prospero.

I applaud that.

So did everyone else.

#welcome to chauncey's #clarence renfald #yves ausclair #edward hyde #victor frankenstein #erik destler #prince prospero #henry clerval #adam frankenstein #i really love your questions guys keep it up!!!

[beasanfi1997]

I Hope that Laika Studios will adapts The Mask of the Red Death made It becoming in Beauty and the Beast style with Happy Ending Just like a Disney Classic(You know? In America are Always Disney since the european navigators Discover the America in 1492 and even the ancestor of Walter Disney was Born in France and Is that because they build Disneyland at Paris) and Hayden Christensen will voice The Mask of the Red Death while Alice Englert will voice the heroine and Marwan Kenzari will voice the Prince Prospero the main antagonist

#laika studios #the mask of the red death #edgar allan poe #hayden christensen #alice englert #marwan kenzari #the americans are more disney than the european that they are more tragic #prince prospero

[finlaylaverygc]

The Night Continues

#masked ball #masque #vampire the masquerade #masquerade ball #death #grim reaper #devil #skull #lust #seduction #prince #masque of the red death #prince prospero #baskerville #hammer horror #glamour #masks #cityofglasgowcollege #HND1 #gradedunit #dance of death

[missygoesmeow]

YOU live in a society. I live in my delusions with my evil satanic boyfriend.

#wah #this is both copia and prince prospero #the band ghost

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Jane Asher in

The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

#vincent price #jane asher #the masque of the red death #masque of the red death #edgar allan Poe #roger corman #gothic #my gothic boyfriend #SIR #if he could have held me like this #omfg #photo #photo edit by me #bicon #Prince Prospero #unf #so sexy #this scene is so hot #fuck me sir #ahem #horror #old horror movies #vintage #movie #actor #handsome

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Masque of the Red Death (1964)

#the masque of the red death #vincent price #60s movies #60s horror #roger corman #edgar allan poe #hazel court #prince prospero #vintage lobby cards #reynold brown #sixties #1964

[cparti-mkiki]

Austrias: Endogamia

#my art #mira it's gotten me 1k twitter likes i might as well post it here #habsburg #felipe iv #carlos ii #felipe ii #charles v #margarita maria #maria teresa #mariana de austria #margarita de austria #felipe iii #felipe prospero #baltasar carlos #don carlos prince of asturias

[raayllum]

—act 5, scene i, The Tempest

#tdpedit #pawns #tests of love #why it ends why it always ends #the dragon prince #tdp #the english major strikes again #quotes #my edits #graphics #multi #arc 1 #arc 2 #theme: freedom #prospero even has a fucking wind spirit at his bidding i Hate it here #smh i'm crying #shakespeare

[possessedopossum]

Rameses, the dreadnought who was too cool to die and became a daemon prince instead, his twin brother Radames, who may or may not have a soft spot for traitorous sororitas, and Samira, ex battle sister with only 1 brain cell she shares with Radames.

#warhammer 40k #wh40k art #thousand sons #dreadnought #daemon prince #Tzeentch #prospero #space marines #adeptus astartes #chaos marines

[artekai]

What if the murderous AI that was out for your blood and your blood specifically in one timeline was actually the personification of your will of rebellion in another timeline? What then?

#ramble #phantom thief kai au #oc tag #thinking about giving fross nemesis just to match kai's hades lol #see the problem is that hades makes sense because it's the extinction protocol right? #and when kai takes down tak/uto's reality that's the literal destruction of an unstable reality haha #so you can see the equivalency right? unless i'm just insane lol #but bc of what nemesis represents it doesn't make sense unless it's an artificially implanted persona that's STILL out for fross's blood #and i can't imagine fross ending up in that situation :7 #honestly something like. idk. prince prospero or even icarus would make a lot more sense for him probably 🤔 #but... bfs with matching personas 👉👈 (and also one of the personas is evil hehe) #just thinking out loud! :')