Investigating the sudden death of his sister, Francis Barnard learns that she was obsessed by the old torture chamber in her husband's gloomy castle and apparently died of fright. The growing insanity of his brother-in-law plunges Francis into a ghastly nightmare of evil, madness and terror.
Product Identifiers
EAN
5050070022100
eBay Product ID (ePID)
43106307
Product Key Features
Film/TV Title
The Pit and the Pendulum
Actor
John Kerr, Vincent Price, Luana Anders, Barbara Steele
Director
Roger Corman
Format
DVD
Release Year
2004
Language
English
Genre
Horror/Occult, General
Run Time
77 Mins
Additional Product Features
Certificate
15
Number of Discs
1
Additional Information
In 16th-century Spain, Francis Bonnard (John Kerr) visits the gloomy castle of his late sister's husband, Nicholas (Vincent Price), in order to discern the reason for her death. It seems Nicholas is terrified that wife Elizabeth (Barbara Steele) is not really dead and that her spirit wanders the halls at night. It turns out Nicholas's father was a feared leader of the Spanish Inquisition, and as a child he saw him torture his mother and then bury her alive. He