The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

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1h 21m
Running Time

August 12, 1961
Release Date

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

1
/ 10
1 User Ratings
1h 21m
Running Time

August 12, 1961
Release Date

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Plot.

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

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This Movie Is About.

gothic horror · 
spain · 
supernatural · 
inquisition · 
castle · 
madness · 
insanity · 
flashback · 
iron maiden · 
14th century · 
buried alive · 
secret door · 
torturer · 
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Details.

Release Date
August 12, 1961

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 21m

Content Rating
NR

Budget
$200,000

Box Office
$2,000,000

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Wiki.

The Pit and the Pendulum is a 1961 horror film directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, and Luana Anders. The screenplay by Richard Matheson was loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story of the same name. Set in sixteenth-century Spain, the story is about a young Englishman who visits a forbidding castle to investigate his sister's mysterious death. After a series of horrific revelations, apparently ghostly appearances and violent deaths, the young man becomes strapped to the titular torture device by his lunatic brother-in-law during the film's climactic sequence.

The film was the second title in the popular series of Poe adaptations released by American International Pictures, the first having been Corman's House of Usher released the previous year. Like House, the film features widescreen cinematography by Floyd Crosby, sets designed by art director Daniel Haller, and a film score composed by Les Baxter. A critical and box-office hit, Pit's success convinced AIP and Corman to continue adapting Poe stories for another six films, five of them starring Price. The series ended in 1964 with the release of The Tomb of Ligeia.

Film critic Tim Lucas and writer Ernesto Gastaldi have both noted the film's strong influence on numerous subsequent Italian thrillers, from Mario Bava's The Whip and the Body (1963) to Dario Argento's Deep Red (1975). Stephen King has described one of Pit's major shock sequences as being among the most important moments in post-1960 horror film.

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