You can’t make this shit up. In Poe’s story, rich people led by Prince Prospero, decide to throw a masquerade party and lock themselves away from the peasants who are dying from plague. A mysterious guest shows up dressed as a Red Death figure. No spoilers, but you can guess how it ends.

People never change do they? I wonder if anyone on the guest list to the real party in the Hamptons in the video above had read this story or seen the Vincent Price movie, sensed the irony, and decided to skip it. Probably not knowing the arrogance of these type of people.