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meeting between three of the genre’s big names. Roger Corman directs
Vincent Price and Barbara Steele in this new adaptation of a work by Edgar
Allan Poe. On this occasion, Corman takes one of the American author’s
most famous stories, The Pit and the Pendulum (original title
of the film, subsequently changed by a smart Spanish distributor convinced
that he’d attract bigger audiences by advertising death than he
would with Poe’s title). The movie takes place in Spain, in the
mansion of the son of the most terrible torturer of the Inquisition. Obviously
Vincent Price plays the evil Nicholas Medina, in one of the works that
turned him into a legend, on this occasion accompanied, for the first
and only time, by Italian horror heroine, Barbara Steele. The script is
signed yet again by Richard Matheson. |
