

The Pit and the Pendulum
Betrayal cuts both ways!
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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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $200K
- Box office
- $2M
- Language
- English
- spain
- inquisition
- insanity
- supernatural
- castle
- buried alive
- flashback
- gothic horror
- secret door
- madness
- torturer
- spanish inquisition
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical12 Aug 1961
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical12London24 Nov 1961
GermanyDE
- Physical126 Dec 2013
IrelandIE
- TheatricalG28 Sept 1962
ItalyIT
- Theatrical3 Jan 1962
SwedenSE
- Theatrical1510 Sept 1962
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The Pit and the Pendulum was released on 12 August 1961.
Audience reviews
3- J8/10
John Chard
3/5/2019
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 place harnessing a deadly past. The Pit And The Pendulum is the second film in the series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations …
- W8/10
Wiccaburr
10/6/2020
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 Haunted Hill (1959)</I> and if you remember that ending then you know what I am talking about. Definitely worth seeing …
- W8/10
Wuchak
3/21/2022
_**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 lord of the manor, Luana Anders his sister and Antony Carbone his doctor. "The Pit and the Pendulum" (1961) was the seco…
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