The Pit and the Pendulum

A schlock genius, king of the Bs and so much more Tuesday, October 27th 2009 at 1:57pm Vincent Price does Poe in The Pit and the Pendulum When Roger Corman receives his Honorary Oscar next month at the Academy's inaugural Governors...

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...the living may bring his "friends" more than they bargained for. Known for such classic '60s horror films as "Little Shop of Horrors," "Pit and the Pendulum," and "The Raven," Corman jumped at the chance to scare up a story that would let...

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...online movie rental service, today announced it is collaborating with renowned horror filmmaker Roger Corman ("Little Shop of Horrors," "Pit and the Pendulum") on a series of Internet Webisodes scheduled to debut two days before Halloween.

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...flick. As with The Black Cat, Poe's work served as inspiration for a film about madness, corruption, and obsession. Roger Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) takes place in 16th century Spain and the climax involves a young man...

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...ghostly appearances and violent deaths, the young man becomes strapped to the titular torture device by his lunatic brother-in-law during the film's climactic sequence . The film was the second title in the popular series of Poe-based movies...

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Then there's the Vincent Price factor. Price, of course, was the on-screen embodiment of Poe's work in such Roger Corman films as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Cask of Amontillado. He also provided the...

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...to say that, thanks to the article, he had been cast by indie studio Regent in a new film version of the Edgar Allen Poe horror story The Pit and the Pendulum -- AND to play the lead in a cable movie called Alien Presence. I called Sestero...

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Screen capture of an image taken from the MGM Midnite Movies DVD of Roger Corman's "The Pit and the Pendulum". Since MGM holds the DVD rights to this particular film, the copyright for the image is held by them. Fair use in The Pit and...

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...great tradition of Ed Wood in gleaning leftover sets and discarded props from other productions to make such B-movie classics as "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Little Shop of Horrors" and (who could forget it?) "Attack of the Crab...

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...the young man becomes strapped to the titular torture device by his lunatic brother-in-law during the film's climactic sequence . The Pit and the Pendulum was the second title in the popular series of Poe-based movies released by American...

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