PIT & PENDULUM [IMPORT]

Details

• Release Year: 1991
• Genre: Horror
• Plot: In the quest to save souls, the Spanish Inquisition will stop at nothing and kn ows no boundaries for its evil. Under the direction of Torquemada (Lance Henriksen - 'Alien', 'Pumpkinhead', 'Millennium') the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, a young baker's wife, Maria (Rona De Ricci) is falsely accused of witchcraft and dragged before the inquisition and the Cardinal (Oliver Reed - 'Gladiator', 'Three Musketeers'). Torquemada is enchanted by Maria's beauty and subjects her and her husband Antonio (Jonathan Fuller - 'Castle Freak') to heinous tortures hoping to prove that his own desires for her are a result of her magic, and that she has 'bewitched him.' With the help of Esmerelda, Maria's cellmate and confessed witch, ultimate machine of torture: the inevitable, razor sharp Pendulum poised over the inescapable Pit of hell.
• Cast: Lance Henriksen, Stephen Lee, William J. Norris, Mark Margolis, Carolyn Purdy-Gordon, Barbara Bocci, Benito Stefanelli, Jeffrey Combs, Tom Towles, Rona De Ricci, Jonathan Fuller, Geoffrey Copleston, Larry Dolgin, Tunny Piras, Fabio Carfora, Frances Bay, Fabrizio Fontana, Oliver Reed, Stuart Gordon, Edgar Allan Poe, Dennis Paoli
• Director: Stuart Gordon
• Runtime: 1:37
• Company: Full Moon Features
• Media Format: Movie