"And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all." Edgar Allan Poe [The final line of the original Poe story.]
The closing credits play over high-contrast monochrome footage, tinted bright red, of a hand laying down rows of cards, one by one, from a medieval Tarocchi deck. Tarocchi was a card-playing game that evolved centuries later into the occult Tarot.
Satanic cards are put by an animated hand on the red background during the closing credits, finishing with the death card "La mort".
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By what name was The Masque of the Red Death (1964) officially released in India in English?
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