Masque of the Red Death is a macabre tale adapted in 1989 by producer Roger Corman from an Edgar Allan Poe short story.

Sadistic medieval Prince Prospero (Adrian Paul) rules as a tyrant over his land, marrying his own sister (Tracy Reiner) and torturing his best friend Claudio (Jeff Osterhage) when he disobeys the prince.

Yet Prospero fears that a plague spreading through the country will ravage his land, so he picks out the "clean" women of the village to come <delete "to"> stay in his palace, and he invites his nobleman friends to hide there until the disease passes. One night when the prince throws a giant masquerade ball, a mysterious red-masked stranger (played by Patrick Macnee) shows up and forces Prospero to confront his own death.