Vincent Price plays a distraught widower who believes his dead wife was buried alive. When his brother-in-law pays a visit, he is determined to learn the truth about his sister's death. Then mysterious events start occurring at the cast. Price's Nicholas is going mad and is determined to learn the truth. This story is really influential since it reminds me of the French film, "Diabolique." Without giving away too much already, this film is quite surprisingly, shocking, and disturbing all at once about the pain of loss which Poe was quite accustomed too in his sad life. If Poe came back, he could do no better than Vincent Price who was a Poe fan himself. I felt the story was quite interesting and the shock at the end. You have to wonder what was going to happen in the torture chamber and if justice was done.
Review of The Pit and the Pendulum
