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The Pit and the Pendulum [6] 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.
The Pit and the Pendulum: Directed by Roger Corman. With Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders. 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.
May 10, 2021 · Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the brutest torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe.
The Pit and the Pendulum. 1961 1h 20m Horror. List. 89% Tomatometer 27 Reviews. 74% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings. Elizabeth Barnard Medina (Barbara Steele) has died in the prime of life,...
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Francis learns that their father Sebastian Medina was a cruel torturer of the Spanish Inquisition and Nicholas is a traumatized man that has witnessed the murder of his uncle Bartolome and his mother adulterer Isabella being tortured and killed by his father when he was a kid.
The crazed Nicholas suddenly assumes his father's identity, battles with Dr. Leon, who falls to his death in the pendulum pit, and locks his unfaithful wife in the iron box. Francis enters the chamber and is seized by the insane Nicholas and lashed to a table under a swinging, razor-sharp pendulum.
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.
Plot summary. The unnamed narrator is brought to trial before sinister judges of the Spanish Inquisition, charged with offenses that are never stated. As seven tall white candles on a table slowly burn down, the narrator feels his hopes of survival diminishing as well.
Pit And The Pendulum. 1961 · 1 hr 21 min. TV-MA. Drama · Horror · Mystery. In sixteenth-century Spain, a deranged man believes that the ghost of his wife is haunting the castle after he learns that she was buried alive. Subtitles: English. Starring: Luana Anders Antony Carbone John Kerr Vincent Price Barbara Steele. Directed by: Roger Corman.
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.
