The Fall of the House of Usher. I held off doing The Masque of the Red Death, because I felt it had some similarities to Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, with its hooded figures, and I might be accused of copying.
But it got to the point where it was the best unadapted one left, so I thought I’d go ahead and worry about it later. What interested me was Vincent Price’s character, Prince Prospero, who believes God is dead and therefore he is free to do whatever he wants – to be his own God.
I could also see a little bit of the 1960s counterculture in the idea of the Red Death plague sweeping the country, with Prospero and his followers holing up in a castle.
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