While working on this page, I was watching Roger Corman’s The Masque of the Red Death from 1964. Great dialogues! Of course, I first found out about the movie thanks to a friend who introduced me to the Norwegian gothic metal band Theatre of Tragedy in the hoary nineties. Good times.
It cannot be denied that some elements have crept into Goldenbird’s story: The wicked (?) tyrant holing up in his castle, the innocent (?) heroine with a cross around her neck, the captured hero, a metaphorically “Red” contagion approaching relentlessly outside…
Otherwise on the playlist: Ennio Morricone (Allonsanfan, La classe operaia va in paradiso, Correva l’anno di grazia 1870, Metello)
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