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 Phantom of Morrisville disappearances, intrigues, kidnappings, and love. The Phantom of Morrisville The Phantom of Morrisville () is a Czech comedy film directed by Borivoj Zeman. It was released in 1966. The movie is a parody on Western mystical thrillers and horror films, in particular—1961 film "The Pit and the Pendulum". A musician from the symphony orchestra reads an English thriller novel during the concert, while performing his parts of the Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen". The book makes so strong an impression on him that he imagines himself to be the novel's protagonist, Sir Hannibal Morris, an owner of a huge Gothic castle.