With The Plague on the cusp of release, writer-director Charlie Polinger is gearing up for his sophomore film: an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe‘s The Masque of the Red Death.

“It’s definitely more in a dark comedy world,” Polinger tells Bloody Disgusting. “It has a much more maximalist tone but explores some similar things [as The Plague] on a very basic level, like group dynamics within a claustrophobic space.”

Polinger continues, “Some of the same people from Plague are coming back to work on it, so I’m really...