The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film)
The Pit and the Pendulum is a 1961 horror film in Panavision and Pathécolor directed by Roger Corman. The screenplay by Richard Matheson was loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s 1842 short story of the same name. The story is about a young Englishman who visits a forbidding castle to investigate his sister’s mysterious death. The movie was a critical...