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The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
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The Fall of the House of Usher's success in 1960 spurred American International Pictures to quickly launch another production based on an Edgar Allan Poe story. While producer-director Roger Corman had hoped to next adapt "The Masque of the Red Death" (which wasn't produced until 1964), Pit and the Pendulum (the onscreen title) became the second in AIP's long-running Poe series. Set in post-Inquisition Spain, the film stars John Kerr as a young Englishman who travels to the seaside castle of his brother-in-law (Vincent Price) to uncover the circumstances behind the death of his sister (a dubbed Barbara Steele). Price is...
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| The Pit and the Pendulum Movie Review by CowboyJunkie (2/19/2009) |
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Well, this one certainly could have been a whole lot better.
But, then again, what could I have honestly expected from the teaming up of B-Grade, Schlock-Director, ROGER CORMAN, and that lisping, aging, Hollywood Ham-Actor, VINCENT PRICE?
With the likes of these two (CORMAN and PRICE) as our primary source of...
(complete The Pit and the Pendulum review by CowboyJunkie)
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