The Pit and the Pendulum
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Movie Reviews of The Pit and the Pendulum
Movie Review: POE..CORMAN...PRICE...at their best
Summary: 4 Stars
it's been a long time since i've seen this movie...great job was done on the video..the colors and brightness are excellant..audio is only mono but passable. roger gives good insight on making of movie and working with the actors and crew...but this movie still haunts me to this day..it is so good in it's pacing and the way corman uses camera and pauses..he know when to use shock effect and when not..if you love the poe classics you'll love this movie..now if only i could find out what happened to the premature burial with ray milland..one of my other favorite poe, corman classics...Movie Review: Price has a feel for Poe
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an excellent piece of work from Price. Dealing with several of Poe's stories and his continual fear of being buried alive, this film uses an Gothis atmosphere to convey a sense of doom.Price is a Duke who has recently "lost" his wife. Her brother comes to investigate and so begins a chain of events that ends in madness and death.
It combines elements of a love betrayed, a love born, revenge, madness and fear into a story loosely based on Poe. Price's sense of Gothic surrealism and horror carries the movie.
I enjoy it and recoomend it.
Movie Review: Vincent Priceless
Summary: 4 Stars
Not as languid as his adaptation of Poe's "The House of Usher" Roger Corman (none-the-less) caught one of Vincent Price's most memorable performances. This jet-black vision on the Spanish Inquisition is as corny as a summer's picnic and as black as the plague...Wonderful editing, classic pregnant dialogue and over saturated art direction (to die for) overtake Corman's study of Poe's nightmare. "Pit And The Pendulum" remains as one of the great lurid early 60's horror epics...Horror fans; do not miss itMovie Review: Entertaining, but many more characters than the original story
Summary: 4 Stars
I teach English and wanted to entertain the students after a major exam. We viewed this film. Sound quality was OK, entertainment value was high with Vincent Price giving all in his performance. The torture chamber with the pendulum was also vivid. Then, I had students read the original Poe story. They were able to contrast the film (many more characters, a melodramatic love story added) with the original intense story. For entertainment and a visual of the main motif in the story, this works fine.Movie Review: Good Corman
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a movie I remember from the early 60's in a theater packed with kids screaming during the scary parts. It's atmospheric and the commentary from Corman really adds to the enjoyment as you get an insider's perspective on the making of horror movies on a budget. Vincent Price is in great form!