THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

We are in Spain during the Inquisition: a young and beautiful peasant girl is accused of witchcraft and brought before the Grand Inquisitor Torquemada, who, struck by her beauty, immediately falls in love with her. To suppress his sexual instincts, he decides to condemn her to death, but the young woman, thanks to the help of a real witch and the intervention of her fiancé, manages to save herself, while it is the terrible inquisitor who meets a bad end… Based on one of Poe's most famous stories, Gordon crafts a good "historical" horror with actors of decent level (among others Lance Herinksen, protagonist of the TV series "Millennium" and Jeffrey Combs of "Re-Animator") and some effective and surely impactful sequences, such as those in which the torture techniques used by the "Holy" Inquisition are shown. More positive notes than negligible flaws. Enjoyable.