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The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum

6.8/ 10

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1961

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80 min

Runtime

Horror
Mystery
Drama

Overview

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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Keywords

spain
inquisition
insanity
supernatural
castle
buried alive
flashback
gothic horror
secret door
madness
torturer
spanish inquisition
pendelum
iron maiden
14th century

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Reviews(3)

8.0avg rating
John Chard

John Chard

March 5, 2019

8
8/10

Price, Corman and Matheson, Gothic splendour. Upon hearing of his sister Elizabeth's death, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to find out just exactly how she met her end. Arriving at the Medina castle, he finds the Medina family deeply suspicious characters and the castle itself a foreboding plac

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Wiccaburr

Wiccaburr

@wiccaburr

October 6, 2020

8
8/10

The colorful flashbacks, the beautiful settings, the delicious revenge, and you got Vincent Price as well. Directed by Roger Corman and Matheson doing the screenplay. And of course, let's not forget this is a Poe story. This is so good especially as the ending comes. Reminds me of <I>House on Ha

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Wuchak

Wuchak

March 21, 2022

8
8/10

_**Haunted chateau, cobwebs, rats, grisly cadavers, adultery, murder and a torture chamber**_ In 1546, a man from London (John Kerr) visits an ominous castle on the coast of Spain to find out the mysterious events surrounding his sister’s sudden death (Barbara Steele). Vincent Price plays the lor

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