American-International's standing "haunted castle" set is exhibited to peak advantage in Roger Corman's Pit & the Pendulum. Save for the climax, Richard Matheson's script bears but little resemblance to the Edgar Allen Poe original, though there are pronounced echoes throughout of Poe's The Premature Burial. Vincent Price stars as Nicholas Medina, the son of a notorious Spanish Inquisition torturer. Nicholas' wife Elizabeth (Barbara Steele) has died under mysterious circumstances, prompting Elizabeth's brother Francis (John Kerr) to arrive at the Medina castle to investigate. The tormented Medina believes that Elizabeth was buried alive, and is convinced that he can hear his wife's voice calling out to him. In truth, Elizabeth has faked her death, part of a plan concocted with her lover Dr. Leon (Anthony Carbone) to drive Medina mad. She succeeds in this goal (albeit to her own grief, as the film's very last shot reveals), pushing Medina over the brink. Convinced that he's his own father, Medina dons Inquisition robes, straps Francis to a table, and arranges for a huge steel-bladed pendulum to slowly, slooooowwly descend on his helpless victim. You'd never know that Pit & The Pendulum was shot on the budget and schedule of a B western; the film is consistently good to look at, with eerily evocative color camerawork (Floyd Crosby) and sumptuous art direction. Stock footage of the climactic torture sequence would later find its way into the 1966 spy spoof Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine, which also starred Vincent Price. ~ Hal Erickson, RoviIf You Like this movie you can streaming Pit and the Pendulum (The Pit and the Pendulum) movie without downloading HERE
Movie Title : Pit and the Pendulum (The Pit and the Pendulum)
Release Date : Aug 12, 1961 Wide
Mpaa Rating : Unrated Genre Movie :Horror,Cult Movies Actors :Vincent Price,John Kerr (II),Barbara Steele,Luana Anders,Anthony Carbone,Patrick Westwood,Lynn Bernay,Larry Turner,Mary Menzies,Charles Victor
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User Ranting Movie Pit and the Pendulum (The Pit and the Pendulum) : 3.5User Percentage For Pit and the Pendulum (The Pit and the Pendulum) : 70 %
User Count Like for Pit and the Pendulum (The Pit and the Pendulum) : 8,236
All Critics Ranting For Pit and the Pendulum (The Pit and the Pendulum) : 6.7
All Critics Count For Pit and the Pendulum (The Pit and the Pendulum) : 16
All Critics Percentage For Pit and the Pendulum (The Pit and the Pendulum) : 81 %
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The film ends up being very nearly as good [as House of Usher], and better in some respects.Tim Brayton-Antagony & Ecstasy
The title calls out for lustrous Freudian hysteria, and Corman delivers
Fernando F. Croce-CinePassion
Vincent Price lording over a giant torture pendulum! Awesome.
Cole Smithey-ColeSmithey.com
It reminds us that flat, colorless character actors look really flat and colorless when sharing a scene with Price.
Mark Bourne-DVDJournal.com
Corman estabelece uma boa atmosfera de tensão, sendo auxiliado na tarefa pela bela direção de arte e por um Vincent Price mais do que inspirado.
Pablo Villaca-Cinema em Cena
Typical Corman-Poe flick with a few unintended laughs thanks to Vinnie's campiness.
Ken Hanke-Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
The best of the Roger Corman Poe films.
Gerry Shamray-Sun Newspapers of Cleveland
Even Vincent Price has little to do
Christopher Null-Filmcritic.com
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Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive!TagLine Pit and the Pendulum (The Pit and the Pendulum) Betrayal cuts both ways!
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