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THE DEAD PIT

1989 • US HMDB
October 1, 1989

The arrival of an amnesiac patient in a psychiatric hospital somehow frees a mad doctor, who was shot and entombed with his fiendish experiments in an abandoned wing of the asylum 20 years before.

Cast

Jeremy Slate, Cheryl Lawson, Stephen Gregory Foster, Danny Gochnauer, Geha Getz, Joan Bechtel, Mara Everett, Jack A. Sunseri, Shanna McCullough, Michael Jacobs
Horror

REVIEWS (1)

MC

Marco Castellini

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In a hospital, a doctor performs bloody experiments on mentally ill patients and terminal patients. One night, a colleague discovers him and accidentally kills him. The hospital management decides to cover up the scandal, so the bodies of the mad doctor and his victims are walled together in a room. Some years later, following an earthquake, a crack opens in the wall that closed that wing of the hospital, and the mad doctor and his guinea pigs return as zombies to seek revenge. A B-movie in every sense! It starts well and offers a few good splatter sequences, but nothing else. The leading actress is scandalous: when the director realized she couldn't pronounce more than two lines, he decided to have her wander through the entire film in her underwear and tank top, a shame she's not even particularly pretty! The plot is laughable and flimsy, the direction flat... in short, a completely negligible film.