THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM....I have a gift today for my two or three conservative readers. It's a story of government regulation gone wild. On Wednesday I went up to LA to visit the new and ...

By Empty, The Associated Press Pusan International Film Festival The fragmentation of knowledge is at the heart of “The Pit and the Pendulum,” a pseudo-mystery with multiple layers that ...

The Pit and the Pendulum plays like an actual movie. Not a very good movie, mind you, but a real movie with an actual plot and character that actually has a modicum of enjoyment going for it.

THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM. The basic premise lent a lot to horror over the years, as did the majority of Poe’s work, but the real hook of the film was awaiting the nerve shredding scene most will ...

Instead of obsessing over your real or perceived flaws ... just like Madeline was. “The Pit and the Pendulum” had the most “satisfying” death because there was no way one could fail ...

His second (arriving one year after The Fall Of The House Of Usher) 1961‘s The Pit And The Pendulum was one of the best, roping in all the classic elements from the Corman-Poe cycle: a castle ...

Sohn certainly springs enough surprises and left turns to make “Pit” engaging enough ... though there’s certainly a pendulum-like aspect to the way the real truth swings hither and yon.

Pit and the Pendulum is an elaboration of the short Poe classic about blood-letting in 16th- century Spain. The result is a physically stylish, imaginatively photographed horror film which ...

The first time I tasted The Pit & The Pendulum, SweetWater’s new cork-and-caged brettanomyces beer with peaches, it was at a little media gathering and we mulled over other potential Edgar Allen ...

For the first time in 35 years, the race for Santa Barbara’s City Hall — normally a bastion of environmental, Unitarian-tinged, quasi-progressive high-mindedness — has been taken over by a solid ...