Another Poe adaptation and this one annoys me more than most. Maybe they are just beating down my resistance.
A bit of muddled eco-concern accompanies this story of a wealthy man who seeks to escape a lethal pandemic by closing himself up in his inaccesable mountain-top retreat.
Simple minded, two dimensional, characters talk at one another in order to fill time till the dull and unsurprising ending.
Is it possible that Roger Corman did a better job? I think so.