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 Mask (1961 film) climax. There's lots of gore in the 3-D sequences, but there's no suspenseful buildup." On his website "Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings", Dave Sindelar criticized the film's "weak" script, and middle section. However, Sidelar did commend the film's 3D sequences as being "truly bizarre, full of unsettling and grotesque images, and with a nightmarish stream-of-consciousness technique", even though they didn't make sense when compared to the overall plot. The Mask (1961 film) The Mask (re-released as Eyes of Hell) is a 1961 Canadian surrealist horror film produced in 3-D by Warner Bros. It was directed by Julian Roffman, and stars