#The Pit and The Pendulum 1961

[schlock-luster-video]

On December 21, 1961 The Pit and the Pendulum debuted in Mexico.

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[the-gothic-darkness]

The Pit and The Pendulum 1961

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[frankehstein]

THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM (1961) | dir. Roger Corman

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[weirdlookindog]

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

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[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

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[haveyouseenthishorrormovie]

SUMMARY: 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.

mod L says: note that, despite sharing a title with The Pit and the Pendulum (1991), these movies are NOT related except in that they're both based on the Poe story. Loosely. Very loosely.

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[threephantomrey]

Vincent Price characters having an evil relative that they look like who haunts them

• Nicholas Medina - Sebastian Media (The Pit And The Pendulum)

• Charles Dexter Ward - Joseph Curwen (The Haunted Palace)

• Asamad Van Ghoul - Vincent Van Ghoul (Scooby Doo and the Curse of the 13th Ghost)

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[browsethestacks]

Famous Monsters Of Filmland - Vincent Price (1960-1961)

Art by Basil Gogos

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[machetelanding]

Roger Corman & Vincent Price on the set of The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

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[scary-movies-on-netflix]

THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM (1961)

A young English nobledude goes to a Spanish castle to find out what happened this his dead sister.  There, he meets Vincent Prince, Vincent Price’s sister, and Vincent Price's doctor.  Vincent Price was married to the Englishman’s sister, and at first they are evasive about her death, stating that she died of a blood disease.  Everyone eventually confesses that the Englishman’s sister was scared to death!  See, Vincent Price is a tortured soul, because his father was involved with the Spanish Inquisition, so there’s a torture chamber below the castle.  Young Vincent Price witnessed his father kill his mother and uncle for having an affair. Now the entire castle is spooky.  The Englishwoman became obsessed with the castle and put herself into the iron maiden, and then she died.

Naturlich, spooks start to occur.  They hear a harpsicord playing, the maid hears something, and then something tears up room of the Englishman’s dead sister.  The Englishman discovers a secret passage and accuses Vincent Price of fabricating all of the incidents!  Eventually, for reasons, they exhume the dead sister’s body, and they see that they buried her alive!  (Her decomposing corpse is digging at the top of the coffin.)  Vincent Price is distraught.  The Englishman feels satisfied and plans to leave.

However, that very night, Vincent Price hears voices and follows them down to the crypt, where the figure of his dead wife rises from the grave.  The figure chases him all the way to the torture chamber, where we see that it’s actually his wife, not dead at all!  The doctor emerges and kisses her.  They were plotting the entire time to drive him insane and steal the castle from him!  Vincent Price goes quite mad and begins to think that he is his father, and he begins to reenact the scene his father killed his mother and uncle.  Vincent Price knocks out the doctor and then he shoves the Englishwoman into a torture device, an “iron maiden,” I assume.  (Note, these devices never existed.)  He then chases the doctor, and the doctor falls into a pit.

By this time the Englishman has arrived.  Vincent Prince continues to think that he is his father, and he wrestles the Englishman onto a pedestal built over a pit.  He ties the Englishman down and reveals the titular pendulum.  “Thus the condition of man,” he says, “bound on an island from which he can never hope to escape, surrounded by the wailing pit of hell, subject to the inexorable pendulum of fate which must destroy him finally.”  The device begins to swing away, and we see devilish visions as the Englishman awaits his death.  The pendulum begins to cut his clothes and belly, but then Vincent Price’s sister arrives with a servant.  They fight and throw Vincent Price into the pit, where he dies, and free the Englishman.  They leave the torture chamber, the sister vowing that no one will ever enter the room again, and we see the eyes of the Englishman’s sister, still trapped in the iron maiden.

This is fine – it’s earned its place as a true horror classic.  The plot is the typical fake-a-haunting-to-drive-someone-mad story, but the movie has style, at least.  Vincent Price plays a sensitive soul, and the rest of the cast are competent, if not great.  (I always find it interesting how older movies portrayed “ye olden times,” dressing everyone in the most magnificent of clothing (copied from period paintings) at all times.)  Wikipedia has a nice article about the making of the film, but I’ll just highlight the climax: a quasi-psychedelic vision of anguished faces, tilted angles, and bright colors.

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[spacely0]

Im hormonal and seeing a gif of Vincent Price doing stupid wizard battles is bringing me to tears. I love him so much. Everyone go watch the dr phibes movies to see a gay theater dad and his devoted daughter in drag murder his critics 😭

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[schlock-luster-video]

On March 14, 2000 The Pit and the Pendulum was released on DVD in Canada.

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[theakandrewscollection]

Pit And The Pendulum (movies, movie posters, 1961)

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[talesfromthecrypts]

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) dir. Roger Corman

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[weirdlookindog]

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

promo art by Jack Manning

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[recycledmoviecostumes]

This red gown was first worn by an extra in the 1952 film At Sword’s Point. Because it was worn by an extra, there is a good possibility that the gown originated from an earlier production, though this has yet to be determined or spotted. The costume was worn again on Barbara Steele as Elizabeth Bernard Medina in the 1961 film The Pit and the Pendulum.  The gown was seen the very next year in Jack and the Giant Killer on Anna Lee as Lady Constance.

Costume Credit: Katie S., Julia Spicer

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Note: This costume has previously been posted. It has been reposted to add an additional sighting of this costume.

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