The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

The Evolution of Vincent Price (137 movies items)

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Movies I've Watched in 2024 [COMPLETED] (225 movies items)

"Watched on: January 19th, 2024. "

Can't go wrong with Vincent Price

“My main attractions to Pit and the Pendulum were Edgar Allan Poe, I love his sense of atmosphere and the fun, haunting writing style, and Vincent Price, who no matter the film or the quality of the script is one of those actors who always delivered. Pit and the Pendulum is an example of both and the genre at their best. Visually, I never really got the sense that it was a limited budget, the Gothic air and the eerie settings worked wonders, and the whole film is directed beautifully. The score is atmospheric, the story, cleverly expanded from Poe's work, is still fun, disturbing and shocking and the dialogue is intelligently arch. The acting is very good. John Kerr is rather wooden, but Barbara Steele is great in her brief appearances and Luana Anders and Antony Carbone are excellent in th” read more

Watched films in 2022 (175 movies items)

"5.3. Blu-ray Vincent Price pönöttää ihan homona ja Barbara Steele kerjää doom-orkesteria tai kulttia ylistämään häntä ajan yli. Loppu-set-piecen kerrassaan upeasti lavastettu kuoppa heilureineen on aika klassinen esimerkki, miten erinomainen loppu voi nostaa koko elokuvan arvoa."

Watched in 2021 (219 movies items)

"19.11. Roger Corman, Vincent Price ja Edgar Allan Poe ovat aina herkullinen yhdistelmä. Nightpainin teoksista kaikkein eniten oskilloivassa V. Jäpikkä saapuu syrjäiseen kartanoon, jossa hänen sisarensa on kuollut mystisissä olosuhteissa. Siskon miestä esittävä Vincent Price ei ainakaan vähennä murhaepäilyjä käyttäytymällä hurmaavan ylieksentrisesti. Morsionsa kuolemaa sureva siippa tuntuu kuitenkin menettävän järkeään rakennuksessa tapahtuvan väitetyn kummittelun myötä."

Movies I Watched in April 2021 (39 movies items)

"Broken Image Link Date: 4/2/2021 Viewed: Amazon Prime Re-Watch Note: The Pit and The Pendulum is one of Roger Corman's best films in my opinion. The production values are amazing and the cinematography from Floyd Crosby (Tabu: A Story of the South Seas) is colorful to look at. Roger Corman did a fantastic job of trying to recreate Edgar Allan Poe's vision. The creepy music from Les Baxter (Savage Sisters) helps the movie feel more atmospheric. It's been years since I have read the original "

“Roger Corman (the "pope of the B series" who here asserts himself as a great "gothic" filmmaker) + Vincent Price (imperial) + Barbara Steele (impeccab”

“Roger Corman (the "pope of the B series" who here asserts himself as a great "gothic" filmmaker) + Vincent Price (imperial) + Barbara Steele (impeccable in a fairly short role) + the writer Richard Matheson ("I am a legend") who adapts the monumental Edgar Allan Poe: this association of geniuses could only give a great film, and this is the case for this cult "The Pit and the Pendulum" ("The Chamber of Tortures" in french).

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MOVIES Watched in 2021 (175 movies items)

"True rating : 8,5/10 See my review here : https://www.listal.com/viewentry/21396192."

Meus DVDs (3001 movies items)

"Pit and the Pendulum, The (Roger Corman, 1961) "

Collection: From Novel to Film (780 movies items)

" TITLE OF WRITTEN WORK: The Pit and the Pendulum PUBLISHED FORMAT: short story AUTHOR/CREATOR: Edgar Allan Poe ORIGINAL PUBLICATION YEAR: 1842 HAVE I READ: Yes NOTES: N/A "

Spook-fest 2016 (35 movies items)

"A Roger Corman film, the primary reason to see this is the ranging performance of Vincent Price, at first a man left broken and skittish by a life of horrors, and later in a more familiar madman role when he starts to believe he is his own father, an executioner. Cheesy, but fun. The scariest part is probably the corpse. You'll see..."