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the sound of a tambourine immediately gives a medieval feeling to david lee's very stravinsky flavors score both the music and stylish blood spattered title sequence announce that this is unapologetically a horror movie but not just any harm movie hello I'm steve haberman I'm a writer a producer and a film historian and I'm very excited to be doing the commentary for one of the greatest horror movies and indeed one of the best literary adaptations of all time roger corman version of edgar allan poe's mask of the red death director roger corman always maintained that pose settings were landscapes of the mind that his stories took place in what freud would later call the unconscious and not in the real world to that and corpsman always tried to make his exteriors feel stylized and slightly under real this opening scene is a perfect example a studio built storybook illustration come to life corpsman characteristically calls attention to his elegantly moving camera by placing dead tree branches in the foreground is it follows the trudging old crone the carefully orchestrated color highlights the red robe of the figure sitting in the gray gloom our right campbell's literate and poetic screenplay hear it reduces the theme of deliverance in the red deaths prophecy the ironic symbol of deliverance is a pure white rose that turns a bloody read at the waving of deaths hand