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The Pit and the Pendulum

Betrayal cuts both ways!

6.9(404)19611h 20m3

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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Behind the camera

Director

Roger Corman

Produced in

United States of America

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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

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  • J

    John Chard

    3/5/2019

    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 place harnessing a deadly past. The Pit And The Pendulum is the second film in the series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations …

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    Wiccaburr

    10/6/2020

    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 Haunted Hill (1959)</I> and if you remember that ending then you know what I am talking about. Definitely worth seeing …

  • W

    Wuchak

    3/21/2022

    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 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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