 This was the second of Roger Corman (qv)s "Poe" films. He had  intended to do "The Masque of the Red Death" but felt that it was  too close to the content of Ingmar Bergman (qv)s recent  _Sjunde inseglet, Det (1957)_ (qv) (US title: "The Seventh Seal").  Several years later Corman would go to England to make  _Masque of the Red Death, The (1964)_ (qv).