The Pit and The Pendulum (1990)

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Written by Dennis Paoli, Edgar Allan Poe

Directed by Stuart Gordon

Running Time: 90 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1990

Rating: 18 Certificate

Filmed in Colour

When Francis Barnard (John Kerr) goes to Spain after hearing of his sister's death her husband, Nicholas (Vincent Price) tells him that she died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this highly unlikely.

Nicholas was the son of the most brutal and unfeeling of torturers whom worked with the Spanish Inquisition. Now Francis thinks that it was ecxtreme fear that brought the downfall of his sister and that she may even of been buried alive.

Now strange things are starting to happen in the Medina castle.

Cast

Lance HenriksenTorquemada
Stephen LeeGomez
William J. NorrisDr. Heusos
Mark MargolisMendoza
Carolyn Purdy-GordonContessa D'Alba Molina
Tom TowlesDon Carlos
Image for Oliver ReedOliver ReedCardinal
Barbara BocciContessa's Son
Benito StefanelliExecutioner
Jeffrey CombsFrancisco
Rona de RicciMaria
Jonathan FullerAntonio
Geoffrey CoplestonButcher
Larry DolginSgt. of the Guards
Tunny PirasGuard
Fabio CarforaBeggar

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