The Masque of the Red Death
Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
A tyrannical 12th-century prince is intrigued by a girl and takes her to live amid the immorality of his court.
Roger Corman
Roger Corman is an American filmmaker. He is credited with over 50 films as director and 400 as producer, many of them low-budget. A great talent scout, he launched many of today's most renowned directors, including Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Francis Ford Coppola, Joe Dante, James Cameron, critic Peter Bogdanovich and Jonathan Demme. He also made Vincent Price his favorite actor. The films of Roger Corman made Vincent Price a monument of horror cinema. He also launched Jack Nicholson, giving him his first major film roles and teaching him the ropes. He also distributed films by foreign directors such as Truffaut, Fellini and Bergman in the United States.
