The Pit and the Pendulum(Movie, 1961)

Name: The Pit and the Pendulum
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Released: 1961
Duration: T01:20:00
Rating: 3.4

1h 20min | Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Rating: 3.4/5 (with 134 votes)

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 rel... ()

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About The Pit and the Pendulum

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!

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: Spain

Based on the work of: Edgar Allan Poe ("The Pit and the Pendulum")

Made by: Alta Vista Productions, American International Pictures (AIP), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 18 languages: Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Slovak (SK), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Released

Release date GR: 08/12/1961

Cast: Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, Luana Anders

Director: Roger Corman

Producer: Roger Corman

Screenwriter: Richard Matheson

Executive Producer: Samuel Z. Arkoff, James H. Nicholson

Director of Photography: Floyd Crosby

Composer: Les Baxter

Production Designer: Daniel Haller

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"El pozo y el péndulo"

"La fosa y el péndulo"

"Бездната и махалото"

"A Mansão do Terror"

"O Poço e o Pêndulo"

"El Péndulo de la Muerte"

"Das Pendel des Todes"

"Brønden og pendulet"

"Dødspendulet"

"El péndulo de la muerte"

"Kuilu ja heiluri"

"La chambre des tortures"

"Το εκκρεμές της αγωνίας"

"A kút és az inga"

"Il pozzo e il pendolo"

"함정과 진자"

"La fosa y el péndulo"

"Het Mysterie van de Dodende Slinger"

"Dødspendelen"

"O Fosso e o Pendulo"

"Fosa şi Pendulul"

"Jama i klatno"

"Dödspendeln"

"Kолодец и маятник"

"Dehset Saati"

"Edgar Allan Poe's Pit and the Pendulum"

"El pozo y el péndulo"

"Njihalo strave"

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

Budget: 200,000 USD

Revenue: 2,000,000 USD (= 1,000%)