The Pit and the Pendulum (1991)

Directed by

Stuart Gordon

Genre

horror film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

R

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 147 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Spanish inquisitor named Torquemada uses torture to extract confessions. A man is trapped in a dungeon with a swinging blade.

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What happens

The Pit and the Pendulum (released on DVD in the United States as The Inquisitor) is a 1991 American horror film directed by Stuart Gordon and based on the 1842 short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The film is an amalgamation of the aforementioned story with Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado", and it also appropriates the anecdote of "The Sword of Damocles", reassigning it to the character of Torquemada. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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