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The Pit and the Pendulum was a bigger financial hit than House of Usher, accruing over US$2,000,000 in distributors' domestic (U.S. and Canada) rentals versus the first film's US$1,450,000. [22] This made it the most successful film to date in AIP's history. [13] The movie would remain the most financially successful of all the AIP Poe films.
The show airs both low-budget and classic horror and science-fiction movies, with host "Svengoolie" – a portmanteau of the words Svengali and ghoul – played by Rich Koz [4] (pronounced "Koze"), who wears thick skull-like makeup around his eyes and cheekbones, a moustache, goatee, and long wig, all black, and a black top hat with a tuxedo jacket over a bright-red, open-collared, pleated ...
"The Pit and the Pendulum" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1842 in the literary annual The Gift: A Christmas and New Year's Present for 1843. The story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition , though Poe skews historical facts.
“The Pit and The Pendulum” Poe's "The Pit and The Pendulum" ends on a hopeful note. The show, one should note, does not. In Poe's version, a prisoner during the Spanish Inquisition narrowly ...
Bishop was the announcer of the Friday night scary movie anthology Screaming Yellow Theater when he had an idea to create a live host for the program-the character that became known as Svengoolie-at first a Bela Lugosi-type voice under a title card (and over Link Wray's 1958 hit "Rumble"), then on-screen, in the guise of a green-haired, green ...
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The Pit and the Pendulum (released on DVD in the United States as The Inquisitor) is a 1991 American horror film directed by Stuart Gordon and based on the 1842 short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The film is an amalgamation of the aforementioned story with Poe's " The Cask of Amontillado ", and it also appropriates the anecdote of " The Sword of ...
The Pit and the Pendulum, a short film by Marc Lougee shown at the 2006 Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival. The Pit and the Pendulum, a 2009 comic book adaptation of the film by Lougee and Susan Ma, published by TidalWave Productions; The Pit and the Pendulum, a film by David DeCoteau "The Pit and the Pendulum", a 2000 Radio Tales ...