"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas...
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The Pit and the Pendulum is a 1961 horror film directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, and Luana Anders. The screenplay...
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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...
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Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum is a 2009 horror erotic thriller film directed by David DeCoteau and starring Lorielle New, Stephen Hansen and Bart Voitila...
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"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The Pit and the Pendulum may also refer to: The Pit and the Pendulum (1913 film), a film...
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The Pendulum, the Pit and Hope (Czech: Kyvadlo, jáma a naděje) is a 1983 Czechoslovak animated short film directed by Jan Švankmajer, adapted from Edgar...
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and also to a slight degree on the amplitude, the width of the pendulum's swing. The regular motion of pendulums was used for timekeeping and was the...
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Park Byung-eun (section Early life and education)
first major role in the drama film The Pit and the Pendulum Pit (2008). In 2015, he played a Japanese lieutenant in Assassination and was signed to a management...
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House of Usher, the first in the series. The following movie, The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), was loosely inspired by the short story of the same name, mostly...
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Rona De Ricci (section Early Life and Education)
actress known for her roles in The Pit and the Pendulum (1991) and The Penitent (1988). She was also credited as Rona Freed and Rona Frid in some works. De...
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Barbara Steele (category English expatriate actresses in the United States)
played the dual role of Asa and Katia Vajda in Mario Bava's landmark film Black Sunday (1960), and starred in The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Horrible...
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Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Black Cat", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Gold-Bug", and "The Pit and the Pendulum". In October 2021, Netflix announced that...
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Frances Bay (category Canadian emigrants to the United States)
films like The Karate Kid (1984), Movers & Shakers (1985), Big Top Pee-wee (1988), Twins (1988), The Grifters (1990), The Pit and the Pendulum (1991). In...
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The Pit and the Pendulum (French: Le puits et le pendule) is a 1964 French featurette horror film directed by Alexandre Astruc and starring Maurice Ronet...
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Frog" The Blind Boys of Alabama – backing vocals on "I Wanna Know (The Pit and the Pendulum)" Willem Dafoe – voice on "The Conqueror Worm", "The City In...
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Kim Tae-hoon (actor) (section Awards and nominations)
the Hanyang Repertory Theatre in 1997. Onscreen, he has played leading roles in indie films such as Way to Go, Rose (2006), The Pit and the Pendulum (2009)...
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Tom Sandoval (section Film and television)
Sandoval appears as Jack in the 2002 music video for "Misunderstood" by Bon Jovi, and reprised his role as Jack in the 2003 video for Bon Jovi's "All...
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Spanish Inquisition (redirect from Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition)
Source for Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum'" from Modern Language Notes, Vol. 48, No. 6 (Jun., 1933), p. 349 "The Pit and the Pendulum". Goodreads. Retrieved...
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November 22, 2023. The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), retrieved November 22, 2023 Williamson, Samuel (April 1, 2023). "Before 'The Godfather,' Francis...
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The Pit and the Pendulum is a three-reel film adapted from Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story of the same name, directed, and produced by pioneering French...
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Look up PIT or pit in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Pit may refer to: The Pit, a commonly used name for a mosh pit The Pit (arena), the main indoor...
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Vincent Price (category Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School alumni)
Usher (1960), The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), The Haunted Palace (1963), and The Masque of the Red Death (1964). Price appeared in the television series...
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Jeffrey Combs (category Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts alumni)
(1986), The Pit and the Pendulum (1991) and Castle Freak (1995). His other horror film appearances include Necronomicon (1993), Peter Jackson's The Frighteners...
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featured in the Edgar Allan Poe story The Pit and the Pendulum. The narrator lies on the rack and can only watch as a scythe swings back and forth, approaching...
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The Blood Demon (Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel in West Germany), also known as The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism, The Snake Pit and the Pendulum, Blood...
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Rebecca (1940) Dracula (1958) The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Suspiria (1977) Near Dark (1987) The Orphanage (2007) Gothic romance...
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Richard Matheson (category Writers about religion and science)
stories for Roger Corman and American International Pictures – House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Tales of Terror and The Raven. He adapted his 1971...
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Table is reminiscent of a scene from Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Pit and the Pendulum", in which a prisoner is freed when rats gnaw through his bonds...
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Stuart Gordon (category American dramatists and playwrights)
of Edgar Allan Poe on two occasions, directing The Pit and the Pendulum in 1991 and The Black Cat for the Masters of Horror series in 2007. Several of his...
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Nicholas Farrell (category English expatriate male actors in the United States)
Farrell starred in the Grace Kelly biopic Grace of Monaco alongside Nicole Kidman and Tim Roth, and the short film The Pit and the Pendulum: A Study in Torture...
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