In response, Catherine talks about Nicholas's traumatic childhood. Their father was Sebastian Medina, a notorious agent of the Spanish Inquisition. When Nicholas was a small child, he was exploring the forbidden torture chamber when his father also played by Price entered the room with his mother Isabella and Sebastian's brother, Bartolome. Hiding in a corner, Nicholas watched in horror as his father repeatedly hit Bartolome with a red-hot poker, screaming "Adulterer! After murdering Bartolome, Sebastian began torturing his wife slowly to death in front of Nicholas.
Catherine and Francis are later informed by Dr. Leon that Isabella in fact was not tortured to death, rather she was entombed behind a brick wall while still alive. Leon explains, "The very thought of premature interment is enough to send your brother into convulsions of horror. The doctor tells Nicholas that "if Elizabeth Medina walks these corridors, it is her spirit and not her living self. Nicholas believes that his late wife's vengeful ghost is haunting the castle. Elizabeth's room is the source of a loud commotion, and it is found ransacked and her portrait slashed.
Her beloved harpsichord plays in the middle of the night. One of Elizabeth's rings is found on the keyboard.
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Francis accuses Nicholas of planting the evidence of Elizabeth's "haunting" as an elaborate hoax. Nicholas insists that his wife's tomb be opened. They discover Elizabeth's putrefied corpse frozen in a position that suggests that she died screaming after failing to claw her way out of her sarcophagus.
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That night, Nicholas—now on the verge of insanity—hears Elizabeth calling him. He follows her ghostly voice down to her tomb. Elizabeth rises from her coffin and pursues Nicholas into the torture chamber, where he falls down a flight of stairs. As Elizabeth gloats over her husband's unconscious body, she is met by her lover and accomplice, Dr.
They had plotted to drive Nicholas mad so that she could inherit his fortune and the castle. Leon confirms that Nicholas "is gone", his mind destroyed by terror. Elizabeth taunts her insensate husband. Nicholas opens his eyes and begins laughing hysterically while his wife and the doctor recoil in horror. Believing himself to be Sebastian, he replays the events of his mother and uncle's murders.
Leon, believing him to be Bartolome, and Leon falls to his death in the pit while trying to escape. Nicholas seizes Elizabeth, and repeats his father's promise to Isabella to torture her horribly. Francis, having heard Elizabeth's screams, enters the dungeon. Nicholas confuses Francis for Bartolome, and knocks him unconscious. He straps him to a stone slab located directly beneath a huge razor-sharp pendulum. The pendulum is attached to a clockwork apparatus that causes it to descend fractions of an inch after each swing, ever closer to Francis's torso.
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Catherine arrives just in time with Maximillian, one of the servants. After a brief struggle with Maximillian, Nicholas falls to his death in the pit. Francis is removed from the torture device. As they leave the basement, Catherine vows to seal up the chamber forever. They slam and lock the door shut, unaware that Elizabeth is still alive, gagged and trapped in the iron maiden. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Corman admitted, "We anticipated that the movie would do well They just wanted another movie with a Poe title fixed to it.
He considered making the former but was worried about similarities between the story and The Seventh Seal , so he decided on adapting the latter. Arkoff said it was his and James H. Nicholson 's decision to make Pit as the second Poe film "because it was a lot more graphic and in the second place, Masque of the Red Death would have needed a dancing troupe that would have been quite expensive. In all those early Poe pictures we had relatively few actors, so when we did finally make Masque of the Red Death we went to the UK where it would be less expensive to do it.
Matheson's script freely devised an elaborate narrative that barely resembled Poe, with only the finale having any similarity at all to the original short story on which the film was based. Corman noted, "The method we adopted on The Pit and the Pendulum was to use the Poe short story as the climax for a third act to the motion picture We then constructed the first two acts in what we hoped was a manner faithful to Poe, as his climax would run only a short time on the screen. Matheson's screenplay included a flashback to a time immediately preceding Elizabeth's illness, featuring Nicholas and Elizabeth horseback-riding and eating a picnic lunch.
Corman deleted the sequence prior to filming because he felt it violated one of his major theories regarding the Poe series:. I had a lot of theories I was working with when I did the Poe films One of my theories was that these stories were created out of the unconscious mind of Poe, and the unconscious mind never really sees reality, so until The Tomb of Ligeia , we never showed the real world.
In Pit , John Kerr arrived in a carriage against an ocean background, which I felt was more representative of the unconscious. That horseback interlude was thrown out because I didn't want to have a scene with people out in broad daylight. The screenplay was modified from its original draft form during the film's shooting. Price himself suggested numerous dialogue changes for his character. In the script, when Francis Barnard is first introduced to Nicholas, the young man asks about loud, strange noises he had heard a few moments earlier.
Trilogy of Terror TV Movie Three short tales of terror including: A family moves into an old, haunted house that regenerates itself by feeding off of the life forces of its injured occupants. This anthology tells three stories: An abrasive Las Vegas newspaper reporter investigates a series of murders committed by a vampire.
A young couple inherits an old mansion inhabited by small demon-like creatures who are determined to make the wife one of their own. Three stories interwoven together. The first, about a college student infatuated with his teacher. The second, a paranoid tale of two sisters - one good, the other evil, and the third about an African tribal doll that comes to life and terrorizes a woman in her apartment. Written by Humberto Amador. Dan Curtis directs this made for television anthology of three stories written by horror-meister Richard Mathseon.
Matheson wrote the teleplay for the third story "Prey," while Richard F. Nolan writer of Logan's Run and much more did so for the first two stories. All of the stories star Karen Black in the lead and the stories are titled with the female names "Julie," "Millicent and Therese," and "Amelia. I really enjoyed the first story about a college student who seduces his seemingly coy college professor only to see things differently later. Curtis plays with his audience and shows scenes from The Night Stalker at a drive-in theater.
Look for a very young Gregory Harrison at this episode's close. The second story has two sisters who hate each other finally settle their differences.. George Gaynes helps out in this episode as a doctor. The story works because of its acting even though I knew what was going to happen long before it did. As well as revelling in its s references, evoking the recent Netflix series Stranger Things itself a riff on King-esque s horror , IT offers a visual spectacle of gory horror.
Condensing the scares of the original adaptation into a densely packed two-hour film, Muschietti outdoes the scenes that so scared me as a child.
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Pennywise is more grotesque; buckets of blood abound in that bathroom scene; and there is a whole room full of clown mannequins. It is also a film that demonstrates the continued power of childhood to delight and terrify in equal measure.
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