The Pit and the Pendlum

The second in the line of Allan Edgar Poe films spawned at American International, The Pit and the Pendulu presented Vincent Price as the demented object of Poe's passion. The movie received rave reviews from the press. Howard Thompson of The New York Times wrote ''This is probably Hollywood's most effective Poe-style horror flavoring to date''. Time magazine singled out the film out as ''a literary hair-raiser that is cleverly, if selfconsciously, Edger Allan-poetic''.

Roger Corman

Comment:
Roger had a quiet authority and a definite psychological approach to the Poe films and we talked about it at great length. Then after the analysis, he left the rest up to us to flesh out the roles. Roger's intensity on the set made up for the fact that these were low-budget, short schedules.
His energy was mystifying. We would go over to his house for conferences and I'd go to the refrigerator to get a bit to eat. It was so strange: Roger never seemed to eat solid food, but rather contained himself to a can of some high-protein diet called Metrecal. My God, I would think to myself, what does this man live on? He had a truly Spartan lifestyle so I always joked about sending him CARE packages.

Vincent Price

Medverkande
Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steel: Producent
Roger Corman: Manus
Richard Matheson: Foto
Floyd Crosby: Musik
Les Baxter: Talat språk
English