The Pit and the Pendulum Charles III and Charles IV only four persons were condemned. The Inquisition was, however, abolished during the period of French intervention (1808–13). The original source of the pendulum torture method is one paragraph in the preface of the 1826 book "The history of the Inquisition of Spain " by the Spanish priest, historian, and activist, Juan Antonio Llorente. relating a second-hand account by a single prisoner released from the Inquisition's Madrid dungeon in 1820, who purportedly described the pendulum torture method. Most modern sources dismiss this as fantasy. One theory is that Llorente misunderstood the account he heard; the prisoner
The Dead One (1961 film) The Dead One (1961 film) The Dead One, also known as Blood of the Zombie, is a 1961 independent American color horror film written, produced and directed by Barry Mahon. It stars John McKay, Linda Ormond, Monica Davis and Clyde Kelly. The narrative follows two cousins - one a businessman (McKay), the other a woman who practices voodoo (Davis) - who each seek control of their family's Louisiana plantation. The significance of "The Dead One" is that it is a regional film, one of the first two zombie movies to be filmed in color, and was thought to be a