Sunday, May 24, 2009

The Pit and the Pendulum - 1961

The Greatest Terror tale ever told!

I realise that this isn't taken exactly from Edgar Allen Poe's work of the same name but still it proves a very enjoyable and pretty scary film!! Vincent Price is as usual on top form with his characterisation of Nicholas, the owner of the eerie castle in the mountains whose brother in law comes to visit after hearing of his sister's untimely death. On the outset Nicholas appears devestated by the events and can hardly communicate the matters of her death to the brother, but everything is not what it seems...
A scary film that is being given an extra star because of Vincent!

Rating 3/5

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