While the plague rages outside in the small Italian province, the Satan-worshipping prince stays confined to the sanctuary of his castle with his aristocratic guests. Inside, all is revelry and cruelty until, during the great masque which crowns the prince's entertainment, the "Red Death" enters the dance and the guests succumb to the plague... one by one. Based on the classic tale by Edgar Allan Poe./  After suffering a nervous breakdown, a washed-up horror-film actor agrees to do a TV-Series based on his old screen screation, the monstrous "Dr. Death." Soon the cast and crew of the series begin dying in ways similar to the deaths of the charaters suffered in the actors old movies...