The Pit and the Pendulum (1991 film) The Pit and the Pendulum (1991 film) 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 the eponymous short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The film is an amalgamation of the aforementioned story with other Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado", and it also appropriates the anecdote of "The Sword of Damocles", reassigning it to the character of Torquemada. In 1492 Spain, Grand Inquisitor Torquemada leads a bloody reign of terror. Opposed to the use of torture by the Church, Maria speaks
Quatermass and the Pit (film) television in 1979, an edited version of which was also given a limited cinema release under the title "The Quatermass Conclusion". "Quatermass and the Pit" marked the return to directing for the cinema for Roy Ward Baker and he went on to direct such films as "The Anniversary" (1968), "Moon Zero Two" (1969), "The Vampire Lovers" (1970), "Scars of Dracula" (1970), "Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde" (1971) and "The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires" (1974) for Hammer. He also directed "Asylum" (1972), "And Now the Screaming Starts!" (1973) and "The Vault of Horror" (1973) for Hammer's rival, Amicus Productions.