The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) Reviews & Ratings

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The Pit and the Pendulum reviews

The Pit and the Pendulum holds a 6.8/10 average from 398 TMDB ratings.

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 that…
— John Chard (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 as it…
— Wiccaburr (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 second in…
— Wuchak (8/10)

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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