The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum

1961 · 80 min · EN · 6.9 (404 votes)
Dir. Roger Corman · Starring Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders, Antony Carbone, Patrick Westwood · Music Les Baxter

“Betrayal cuts both ways!”

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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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A suffocating descent into madness within a crumbling castle. Expect creeping dread, psychological torment, and a palpable sense of inherited doom. This is gothic horror at its most atmospheric and unsettling.

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