The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film) The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film) The Pit and the Pendulum is a 1961 horror film in Panavision and Pathe Color directed by Roger Corman, starring Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, John Kerr, and Luana Anders. The screenplay by Richard Matheson was loosely inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story of the same name. Set in sixteenth-century Spain, the story is about a young Englishman who visits a forbidding castle to investigate his sister's mysterious death. After a series of horrific revelations, apparently ghostly appearances and violent deaths, the young man becomes strapped to the titular torture device by
The Amityville Horror (2005 film) The Amityville Horror (2005 film) The Amityville Horror is a 2005 American horror film directed by Andrew Douglas and written by Scott Kosar. It is a based on the novel The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson and is a remake of the 1979 film The Amityville Horror. It is the ninth installment of the "Amityville" film series, which documents the alleged experiences of the Lutz family after they moved into a house on Long Island where Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered six members of his family in 1974. In 1974, Ronald DeFeo Jr. murdered his family at their house at 112