And that preacher nearly knocked me down, he said "Oh, I'm headin' out that kitchen door!" I said "Rev, that kitchen ain't got no door in it!" He said "Don't worry son, it will have in a minute!" And I ain't never seen so much jumpin' and shovin' before
Jesuschrist. Got the notification, looked at the title, and I was like how dare you call that a bad movie? Then saw the thumbnail and realised it's not the Corman-Price one. 😂
Herbert Lom was such a serious actor that to see him play Inspector Dreyfus in the Pink Panther films is pure comedy gold. Also, he was very good as Captain Nemo in "Mysterious Island".
@@bostonrailfan2427 That's grand. Until I cottoned-on to your puns, you had me bobbin along. I was going to bale. you had me in stitches... er, Something about spinning a yarn? This isn't easy.
Correction on the production: This was produced by Avi Lerner and Harry Alan Towers, and distributed by Menahem Golan's 21st Century Productions, not by Golan and Yoram Globus for Cannon. Golan resigned from Cannon in 1989, and started 21st Century Productions.
yes/no…it was originally meant to be Cannon and was actually in production as a Cannon film but was transferred to 21st Century when the two companies ended their agreement. the timing is too close for it to not have been a Cannon film: released November, the split was finalized in April so unless they managed to write, film, edit, and release an entire movie in that short time period it was a Cannon movie in all but name
@ it was originally a Cannon film, it was heavily in development if not in post-production when the men behind it moved on to 21st Century taking it and multiple movies in production or in development with them
Poor Herbert Lom, trying desperately to maintain his dignity, and poor Brenda Vaccaro, trying desperately to have more than five minutes of screen time. Favorite Lom? "A Shot In The Dark"....Lom twitching, growling, and gnawing furiously on Peter Sellers' ankle will never not make me go into the ugly laugh.
@@davidlionheart2438 I noticed that. I think she managed 5 minutes and 8 seconds of screen time. It would have been an extra second, but that was cut from the final cut of the film. 😆 🤣
Thanks again DCR crew! Fave Lom film has gotta be "A Shot in the Dark" but 1st film I saw him in was "Spartacus", where he played an emissary for the Cilecian Pirates, when he met with Kirk Douglas. :)
Lom was in a version of The Murders of the Rue Morgue that seemed to bare little resemblance to the original short story, and seemed to be more inspired by The Phantom of the Opera. Yet I still found it a fascinating film.
My great aunt, actress Linda Smith is one of the "Neo Punk Dancers" in this film, she has a handful of IMDB credits. This was her last film before she decided to stop acting, I've been meaning to ask her about her movie and TV career.
Sheesh, the "musical interludes" in this make THE MONSTER CLUB look like Masterpiece Theatre. Keep these stinkers coming, Robin! P.S. Favorite Herbert Lom movies?...All the Pink Panther films and his turn as Captain Nemo in Mysterious Island. Oh, and Hammer's Phantom of the Opera.
I always see Lom as Inspector Dreyfus in my mind and always forget he was already a very established serious actor which just adds to the comedy of the Dreyfus character
Lom will always be the doctor from 'The Dead Zone' to me, because you never forget your first Lom. I also quite like his low-key version of Van Helsing in the Franco 'Dracula', but I know I'm in a minority there. It's a shame that it wasn't Ludwig who got chained up in the pendulum trap, depriving us of a Lom: Chainey joke.
Corman's _Masque of the Red Death_ has become a personal favorite--i even dressed up as the Red Death this past Halloween :) this version DOES look pretty lousy, though. just a generic slasher movie with a VERY thin layer of Poe
Did I miss a reference to the actual stars listed on the box, Frank Stallone as well as Brenda Vaccaro? I will admit I haven't seen this version, and they may only be in one or two scene so they can use them in marketing (Peter Cushing in Shockwaves), but...
It's impossible for me to watch this review and not think of Herbert Lom in the c.1973 version of "Ten Little Indians" with Elke Swedish. Not that I'm selective about the matter: I've never seen an adaptation of "And Then There Were None," stage or screen, that I haven't loved.
I found this movie on TH-cam back in October and thought it was a different adaptation of Masque. And I honestly thought the whole movie was going to end up being all a dream given that part at the beginning. How wrong I was.
Flashbacks to the Apple. Now that can only be a recommendation right? Didn't Corman get Larry Brand to do a remake of Masque as well with Patrcik McNee for Horizons or Concord pictures? Maybe "Miracle Picture?"
Re: the pendulum, I do know that people do stupid things when panicked, but this does feel a bit too far... or it would if our 'heroine' wasn't already established as not bright.
Herbert Lom and Brenda Vaccaro sure made some questionable project choices in the 80's. * I always thought Herbert Lom's Napoleon was the best part of 1956's "War and Peace "...& the VistaVision.
Herbert Lom best work ? THE PINK PANTHER movies let him do comedy ( which he was great in ). But I had to give to him for both PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and THE DEAD ZONE.
His work in the Pink Panther films just slay with me. His unhinged Chief Inspector Dreyfus makes me laugh so hard opposite Peter Sellers’ slapstick Clouseau
Multiple homicides tend to ruin any party/orgy. She picked the wrong Poe to read. It always makes me chuckle to think that Frank is Sly's less talented brother.
I just recently watched the Corman version and I think it is amazing. Red Death is not my favourite Poe story that honour goes to Pit and the Pendulum or the Tell tale heart.
Only if he saw the original in 3-D in a theater, though. It was reissued in the 1980s during the 3-D revival and I caught it that way. But seriously, 3-D didn't really make it any better or worse. Never was a big fan of The Creature, anyhow, but give the people what they want I guess.
'Bout to say, this better not be the Corman version which is my favorite of that series, somewhat in opposition to you and others it seems. Yeah, this one looks pretty skippable.
So this was a chess-based party? Shouldn't the band have been playing "One Night in Bangkok"? As for my favorite Herbert Lom movie, I have to go with Return of the Pink Panther. My parents and I loved that movie so much we wound up naming our dog after a scene in the movie.
@@Rudra0141 Well, the movie was Return of the Pink Panther. We saw that shortly before getting our toy poodle puppy. When we got her home she was acting so goofy and silly we thought about naming her Monkey. But my father remembered the scene in the movie where Inspector Clouseau was talking about the organ grinder and his "chimpanzee minkey". So we named her Minkey. :)
This would have been a lot more bearable if the murders were being covered up from the guests and there was no locked gate, just the crippling paranoia of not knowing who the killer is and that the police might suspect it's a prank because of previous parties held by the eccentric host having caused legal embarrassments.
I don't know the first thing about writing a script or making a movie, but for YEARS now I've wanted to do a modern day retelling of The Masque Of The Red Death in short film format. Only instead of a ball, it's anti-vaxxers throwing an infection party and the anti-vaxxers themselves can't see Red Death stalking about, but their children that they're trying to infect with things like measles, chicken pox, polio, etc CAN. Then, before their eyes, they see their children rapidly get sick, develop symptoms, and either die or become permanently disabled from these diseases that could've been prevented if they had just vaccinated their kids. The movie ends with Red Death dancing amongst the corpses and disabled children as their parents are on their knees, crying and screaming.
Not a film but a TV series called The Human Jungle, in which Herbert Lom plays a psychologist. It went to show how good an actor he was when he was in something so well written. It's a pity he isn't remembered more for that.
There's an old Bob Newhart Bit where he says "I'll just go out the BACK door!' & when he's told there is none, he asks 'Where would you like one???'!
And that preacher nearly knocked me down, he said
"Oh, I'm headin' out that kitchen door!"
I said "Rev, that kitchen ain't got no door in it!"
He said "Don't worry son, it will have in a minute!"
And I ain't never seen so much jumpin' and shovin' before
Yeah, even brick walls aren't that tough; six hours would be more than enough time to get through one if no one interrupted you.
Jesuschrist. Got the notification, looked at the title, and I was like how dare you call that a bad movie?
Then saw the thumbnail and realised it's not the Corman-Price one. 😂
Herbert Lom was such a serious actor that to see him play Inspector Dreyfus in the Pink Panther films is pure comedy gold. Also, he was very good as Captain Nemo in "Mysterious Island".
How about his turn as The Phantom of the Opera?
@@l.a.gothro3999 He was a brilliant Phantom. The screenplay was godawful, though.
@@l.a.gothro3999 An amazing job as well. It's hard to imagine Lom doing a mediocre job at any role.
Lom starred in the exploitation horror movie, Mark of the Devil (1970), which included a vomit bag along with the theater ticket.
How about The Ladykillers
4:15 love your warped humor. You've never weft a bad pun unsaid
That warped loom really left the victim's family beweft.
Favourite Herbert Lom film? Hell Drivers.
"...looming danger".
I started to cry at this point.
he can definitely weave a great story
@@bostonrailfan2427 Are you pulling the wool over my eyes?
@ i’m fleecing for jokes, it felt right to say 🤣
@@bostonrailfan2427 That's grand. Until I cottoned-on to your puns, you had me bobbin along. I was going to bale. you had me in stitches... er, Something about spinning a yarn? This isn't easy.
Favorite Herbert Lom movie: "The Dead Zone" - he played Johnny Smith's doctor.
"Could have done that at any time..." Yeah, but then we couldn't do the jump scare with the impaled girl hanging on the spikes.
I didn't know there was another version of The Masque of the Red Death. And I wish it stayed that way.
There was another on that same year!
I know what you mean.
"' you could just cry"' ❤
Lom was in Night and the City, a Jules Dassin film, with Richard Widmark, and absolutely brilliant.
Favourite Herbert Lom movie is Asylum, 1972 anthology horror film written by Psycho writer Robert Bloch.
Love that one! Have it on DVD and VHS.
I've heard Herbert Lom was in The Invisible Man but I didn't See him!
@@earlleeruhf3130 😆 🤣 that's zero screen time in a 95 minute film. That takes some doing.
Correction on the production: This was produced by Avi Lerner and Harry Alan Towers, and distributed by Menahem Golan's 21st Century Productions, not by Golan and Yoram Globus for Cannon. Golan resigned from Cannon in 1989, and started 21st Century Productions.
So that makes it a masterpiece. (But that's for the info all the same.)
yes/no…it was originally meant to be Cannon and was actually in production as a Cannon film but was transferred to 21st Century when the two companies ended their agreement. the timing is too close for it to not have been a Cannon film: released November, the split was finalized in April so unless they managed to write, film, edit, and release an entire movie in that short time period it was a Cannon movie in all but name
Yes, we don't say it's a Cannon film, it is from the men behind Cannon films.
@ it was originally a Cannon film, it was heavily in development if not in post-production when the men behind it moved on to 21st Century taking it and multiple movies in production or in development with them
This could be the end for Frank Stallone... but he's *Far From Over...* 😉😅
Now I have that damn song playing in my head. Thanks a lot.
@@jrcarter9175 😆😂🤣
This story is a metaphor for
The Coronavirus Pandemic.
I prefer the Roger Corman/Vincent Price version.
0:48 I bet that heart has a tale to tell.
Poor Herbert Lom, trying desperately to maintain his dignity, and poor Brenda Vaccaro, trying desperately to have more than five minutes of screen time.
Favorite Lom? "A Shot In The Dark"....Lom twitching, growling, and gnawing furiously on Peter Sellers' ankle will never not make me go into the ugly laugh.
@@davidlionheart2438 I noticed that. I think she managed 5 minutes and 8 seconds of screen time. It would have been an extra second, but that was cut from the final cut of the film. 😆 🤣
Just the thing I needed
Director Alan Birkinshaw tries his best to channel Dario Argento but ends up somewhere in the Uwe Boll area.
but at least birkinshaw is entertaining to watch
Thanks again DCR crew!
Fave Lom film has gotta be "A Shot in the Dark" but 1st film I saw him in was "Spartacus", where he played an emissary for the Cilecian Pirates, when he met with Kirk Douglas. :)
Finally! 1:54 I’ve always wanted to know about this scene considering you use it on your intro (and I have the movie title to boot!!)👍🏿
We also reviewed it
@ just watched it and I pity you had to sit through it.
Duke was played by...you guessed it! Frank Stallone.
Or so the Germans would have us believe.
Was coming here to do this, my thanks to you
The killer is revealed to be O.J. Simpson.
Reminds me of that tragedy.
Maybe Chief Inspector Dreyfus didn’t know what to do with himself after finally getting rid of Inspector Closeau.
Edgar Allen Poe came up with a better bottle story than this movie?
Why can’t they leave? There’s a PLAGUE outside! It’s kinda the theme…
Lom was in a version of The Murders of the Rue Morgue that seemed to bare little resemblance to the original short story, and seemed to be more inspired by The Phantom of the Opera. Yet I still found it a fascinating film.
My great aunt, actress Linda Smith is one of the "Neo Punk Dancers" in this film, she has a handful of IMDB credits. This was her last film before she decided to stop acting, I've been meaning to ask her about her movie and TV career.
Corman's version is the only one for me.
Sheesh, the "musical interludes" in this make THE MONSTER CLUB look like Masterpiece Theatre. Keep these stinkers coming, Robin! P.S. Favorite Herbert Lom movies?...All the Pink Panther films and his turn as Captain Nemo in Mysterious Island. Oh, and Hammer's Phantom of the Opera.
I like MONSTER CLUB and the musical number THE STRIPPER. ;... and the Stripper of course.
I always see Lom as Inspector Dreyfus in my mind and always forget he was already a very established serious actor which just adds to the comedy of the Dreyfus character
I tried to watch this yrs ago.
I just couldn't finish it.
Thanks for the not so shocking ending.
Ugh. Vincent is turning over in his grave. (Except he was cremated). ❤
I'm sure he was _spinning_ in his grave when during that loom scene.
He hadn’t died yet though. This came out in 1989 and he passed in ‘93
@@LucyLioness100 okay. At least we can hope he never SAW it, lol
Thank you
Shame they made a hash of it because a modern day version of Masque of the Red Death could go hard.
Yeah, especially after the Plague of 2020.... great idea
Happy holidays 🎉
Lom will always be the doctor from 'The Dead Zone' to me, because you never forget your first Lom. I also quite like his low-key version of Van Helsing in the Franco 'Dracula', but I know I'm in a minority there. It's a shame that it wasn't Ludwig who got chained up in the pendulum trap, depriving us of a Lom: Chainey joke.
Corman's _Masque of the Red Death_ has become a personal favorite--i even dressed up as the Red Death this past Halloween :)
this version DOES look pretty lousy, though. just a generic slasher movie with a VERY thin layer of Poe
Corman’s version has such style and a memorable cast with Vincent Price and Hazel Court alone. I watch that one often as Corman’s Poe cycle is fun
@@LucyLioness100 the best part is that it's free-to-watch in its entirety right here on TH-cam ;)
@@Emperor_Oshron I actually have it on my Vincent Price BluRay collection 😄
8:17 Hooray and up she rises.
Did I miss a reference to the actual stars listed on the box, Frank Stallone as well as Brenda Vaccaro? I will admit I haven't seen this version, and they may only be in one or two scene so they can use them in marketing (Peter Cushing in Shockwaves), but...
They're there but just barely
Science advisor, can ancient familial curses destroy house foundations?
Noooooooooo
Thank goodness! At first I thought you were going to go after the Price version!
We love that film!
@@DarkCornersReviews , precisely and how can one not love it!
When I saw the thumbnail, I was expecting a Concorde production.
Favorite Herbert Lom Movie: The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Favorite would be *The Pink Panther Strikes Again,* but I’ll have to bring up *The Sect* as a lesser known film he was in.
Wasn't there another adaptation starring Adrian Paul the guy who was the lead in Highlander The Series?
Yep, that one came out the very same year as this one, and he was Prospero. Roger Corman produced it, and Patrick Macnee co-starred.
@@CalliopesPenwas it as bad as this one looks?
..
3:00 - Golan Globus predicting TikTok!
It feels like a commercial for a movie on the Simpsons.
8:47: Hmmmmmmmm, where have I seen that shot before??? 🤔
"Looming danger."
It's impossible for me to watch this review and not think of Herbert Lom in the c.1973 version of "Ten Little Indians" with Elke Swedish. Not that I'm selective about the matter: I've never seen an adaptation of "And Then There Were None," stage or screen, that I haven't loved.
I found this movie on TH-cam back in October and thought it was a different adaptation of Masque.
And I honestly thought the whole movie was going to end up being all a dream given that part at the beginning. How wrong I was.
Hey, a gig is a gig.
Cannon put a lot of heart into this movie.
I have loved this movie since I was a kid. It is so late 80s and so over the top and so much fun.
Took a date to this movie when it was at the dollar theater. I just don't remember it being THAT BAD!! I must have been drinking that night.
I'm curious which movie has the better heavy metal band that plays public domain rock: this one or BODYSLAM starring Dick Benedict and Roddy Piper?
I've got that edition of Poe too.
0:37 and me too!
Flashbacks to the Apple. Now that can only be a recommendation right?
Didn't Corman get Larry Brand to do a remake of Masque as well with Patrcik McNee for Horizons or Concord pictures? Maybe "Miracle Picture?"
Yeah. Same year as this one/ Just as bad but not as funny.
Whato Robin
I remember Herbert Lom in the television series "The Human Jungle"; yes, I am that old.
oh you should do the house of usher from 1989, that movies is even more insane with oliver Reed in it
Was that Brenda Vaccaro making a quick appearance and quicker exit?
Yes it was.
Lom is really good in Cronenberg's The Dead Zone
That cardboard mask painted black the count has looks like something I'd make in primary school.
Re: the pendulum, I do know that people do stupid things when panicked, but this does feel a bit too far... or it would if our 'heroine' wasn't already established as not bright.
'Looming danger', you are warped.
Herbert Lom and Brenda Vaccaro sure made some questionable project choices in the 80's.
* I always thought Herbert Lom's Napoleon was the best part of 1956's "War and Peace "...& the VistaVision.
Herbert Lom best work ? THE PINK PANTHER movies let him do comedy ( which he was great in ). But I had to give to him for both PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and THE DEAD ZONE.
His work in the Pink Panther films just slay with me. His unhinged Chief Inspector Dreyfus makes me laugh so hard opposite Peter Sellers’ slapstick Clouseau
Multiple homicides tend to ruin any party/orgy. She picked the wrong Poe to read. It always makes me chuckle to think that Frank is Sly's less talented brother.
Just goes to show how good Corman and Price were.
I just recently watched the Corman version and I think it is amazing.
Red Death is not my favourite Poe story that honour goes to Pit and the Pendulum or the Tell tale heart.
Nice how the Singer of the Band always sang into a Microphone that wasn't connected electrically to anything. 😊
There are modern microphones that are called Wireless Mics that don't need a cable to connect themselves to an amplifier.
Review the Creature from the Black Lagoon trilogy or I will destroy your King
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Leave Charles alone
He may have to atone
Only if he saw the original in 3-D in a theater, though. It was reissued in the 1980s during the 3-D revival and I caught it that way. But seriously, 3-D didn't really make it any better or worse. Never was a big fan of The Creature, anyhow, but give the people what they want I guess.
Thumbnail had me so confused. Maybe put (1989) in the title? : )
Might still be confused as there were two Masque's of the Red Death that year. ;)
@@DarkCornersReviews DOH !
...great, just great now we're all going to have to get that Poe book just be like the rest of the cool kids.
'Bout to say, this better not be the Corman version which is my favorite of that series, somewhat in opposition to you and others it seems. Yeah, this one looks pretty skippable.
I love Corman's MotRD, it's such a beautiful movie!
And Jane Asher 🥰
Wow! You could have added the Baron trying to murder Inspector Closseau and it wouldn't have made any difference to the tone of the film at all.
So this was a chess-based party? Shouldn't the band have been playing "One Night in Bangkok"?
As for my favorite Herbert Lom movie, I have to go with Return of the Pink Panther. My parents and I loved that movie so much we wound up naming our dog after a scene in the movie.
Please tell me the name of your dog & the movie. Cheers
@@Rudra0141 Well, the movie was Return of the Pink Panther. We saw that shortly before getting our toy poodle puppy. When we got her home she was acting so goofy and silly we thought about naming her Monkey. But my father remembered the scene in the movie where Inspector Clouseau was talking about the organ grinder and his "chimpanzee minkey". So we named her Minkey. :)
I didn't know that this version existed!
And I didn't want to know.
This would have been a lot more bearable if the murders were being covered up from the guests and there was no locked gate, just the crippling paranoia of not knowing who the killer is and that the police might suspect it's a prank because of previous parties held by the eccentric host having caused legal embarrassments.
But then we'd be deprived of the image of the killer being hoisted by the spikes on the bars.
4:25 ... after all, it's still the '80s.
Not gunna lie, this looks pretty awesome!
Herbert Lom, was a fantastic actor in most things. Sadly he and his dodgy toupee, could do little to save this bit of crap.
At least it's over.
Did not realize this movie existed. Perhaps it should have stayed that way.🤣
Canon films are not just bad, they are exasperatingly bad. Because they just don't care.
Golem and Globular! Except not really, it seems.
Looks like the character too
Yeah, the motive for the killing was a bit mad.
"Looming" danger. 🤦♂
Very, VERY sharp knife.
I don't know the first thing about writing a script or making a movie, but for YEARS now I've wanted to do a modern day retelling of The Masque Of The Red Death in short film format. Only instead of a ball, it's anti-vaxxers throwing an infection party and the anti-vaxxers themselves can't see Red Death stalking about, but their children that they're trying to infect with things like measles, chicken pox, polio, etc CAN. Then, before their eyes, they see their children rapidly get sick, develop symptoms, and either die or become permanently disabled from these diseases that could've been prevented if they had just vaccinated their kids. The movie ends with Red Death dancing amongst the corpses and disabled children as their parents are on their knees, crying and screaming.
I have a soft spot for The Mark of the Devil (1970), even if it is real grindhouse stuff. I swear they shot it in three languages at once.
If this was a genuine Golan - Globus production , Chuck Norris / Charles Bronson would have been running around kicking butt all over the place .
So bad, its bad. Best Herbert Lom movie-The Ladykillers.
Herbert Lom would've been a far better Lionel Twain than Truman Capote in "Murder by Death", IMNSHO.
Speaking of Panther films that red death girl would have made a lousy Cato.
🎉
Always split up and search.
I think all of them were better than that?
Not a film but a TV series called The Human Jungle, in which Herbert Lom plays a psychologist.
It went to show how good an actor he was when he was in something so well written. It's a pity he isn't remembered more for that.
This is hilarious. Poe is rolling in his grave.