The screenplay of the 1961 horror film The Pit and the Pendulum was based on a short story by which author?
"to film the story in the late '50s, along with versions of ""The Tell-Tale Heart"" and ""The Murders in the Rue Morgue"", but the films were never made. When Roger Corman's ""House of Usher"" was released in June 1960, its box office success took AIP's James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff by surprise. Corman admitted, ""We anticipated that the movie would do well... but not half as well as it did."" According to Richard Matheson, ""When the first film was a hit, they still didn't consider doing a Poe series. They just wanted another movie with a Poe title"
"horror, ""Elizabeth. What have I done to you? (""beat"") What have I done to you?"" The camera was to then cut directly to Elizabeth's face trapped in the iron maiden. Corman decided to jettison the lines, believing that the film should remain purely visual at that point and dialogue would ruin the power of the scene. ""The Pit and the Pendulum"" was announced in August 1960, and filming began the first week of January 1961. According to Lucy Chase Williams' book, ""The Complete Films of Vincent Price"", the shooting schedule was fifteen days, and the film's budget was almost $1"
"miniseries created by Scott Davis and Sebastian Piriz based on ideas developed by Ray Harryhausen in 1952 for an unrealized film project called ""The Elementals"". A radio dramatization of the miniseries, produced by Colonial Radio Theater for SiriusXM was released in 2016. ""The Pit and the Pendulum"" is a 2009 comic book adaptation by Marc Lougee and Susan Ma of the award-winning 2007 stop-motion short executive produced by Ray Harryhausen, based on the story of the same name by Edgar Allan Poe. The ""Vincent Price Signature Series"" is a series of authorised by the estate of Vincent Price. ""Vincent Price"
"at 20,000 Feet"" (1963), ""Little Girl Lost"" (1962), and ""Death Ship"" (1963). For all of his ""Twilight Zone"" scripts, Matheson wrote the introductory and closing statements spoken by creator Rod Serling. He adapted five works of Edgar Allan Poe for Roger Corman's Poe series, including ""House of Usher"" (1960), ""The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)"", and ""The Raven"" (1963). He wrote the """" episode """" (1966). For Hammer Film Productions he wrote the screenplay for ""Fanatic"" (1965; US title: ""Die! Die! My Darling!"") based on the novel ""Nightmare"" by Anne Blaisdell, starring Tallulah Bankhead and Stefanie Powers; he also adapted"
"Films. Asylum (1972 horror film) Asylum (also known as House of Crazies in subsequent US releases) is a 1972 British horror film made by Amicus Productions. The film was directed by Roy Ward Baker, produced by Milton Subotsky, and scripted by Robert Bloch (who adapted four of his own short stories for the screenplay). Baker had considerable experience as a director of horror films as he had tackled ""Quatermass and The Pit"", and ""Scars of Dracula"". Robert Bloch, who wrote the script for ""Asylum"" based on a series of his own short stories, was also the author of the novel"
"Daniel Haller Daniel Haller (born September 14, 1926 in Glendale, California) is an American film and television director, production designer, and art director. Haller studied at the renowned Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. In 1953, Haller started as an art director in television, then quickly graduated to low budget feature films. Among many other credits, Haller designed the deceptively opulent sets for nearly all of Roger Corman's critically acclaimed Edgar Allan Poe film series, including ""House of Usher"" (1960) and ""The Pit and the Pendulum"" (1961). Haller directed his first film, ""Die, Monster, Die!"", in 1965 for American International"
"returns it surpasses the release position). It is claimed that the pendulum was used as an instrument of torture and execution by the Spanish Inquisition in the 18th century. The allegation is contained in the 1826 book ""The history of the Inquisition of Spain "" by the Spanish priest, historian and liberal activist Juan Antonio Llorente. A swinging pendulum whose edge is a knife blade slowly descends toward a bound prisoner until it cuts into his body. This method of torture came to popular consciousness through the 1842 short story ""The Pit and the Pendulum"" by American author Edgar Allan"
"Asylum (1972 horror film) Asylum (also known as House of Crazies in subsequent US releases) is a 1972 British horror film made by Amicus Productions. The film was directed by Roy Ward Baker, produced by Milton Subotsky, and scripted by Robert Bloch (who adapted four of his own short stories for the screenplay). Baker had considerable experience as a director of horror films as he had tackled ""Quatermass and The Pit"", and ""Scars of Dracula"". Robert Bloch, who wrote the script for ""Asylum"" based on a series of his own short stories, was also the author of the novel ""Psycho"","
"Pit of Darkness Pit of Darkness is a 1961 British thriller film, directed by Lance Comfort and starring William Franklyn and Moira Redmond. The film is an amnesia thriller dealing with a man's attempts to piece together a sequence of strange events in which he seems to have been involved during the time of which he has no memory, based on the novel ""To Dusty Death"" by Hugh McCutcheon. Safe-designer Richard Logan (Franklyn) comes to consciousness on a patch of waste ground with no recollection of how he came to be there. Assuming he must have been attacked and hit"
"considered to have provided Edgar Allan Poe with the idea of the shrinking cell in his short story ""The Pit and the Pendulum"" and it is viewed as Mudford's most famous tale. The story takes place in the torture chamber of Tolfi castle in Sicily. The hero of the story is Vivenzio who is confined into an iron cell built deep inside solid rock by the revenge-seeking Prince of Tolfi. Vivenzio is portrayed as a noble man, a warrior and hero of Naples but one who fell out of favour with the Prince of Tolfi and now he was about"
"The Impersonator The Impersonator is a 1961 low-budget black and white British thriller film directed and co-written by Alfred Shaughnessy. An American angle and U.S. character actor John Crawford were incorporated to give this second feature some transatlantic box office appeal. In an effort to improve relations between a US air force base and the sleepy local English village nearby, airman Sergeant Jimmy Bradford organises a school trip to see the pantomime ""Mother Goose"". Meanwhile a prowling killer is on the loose and after a night out with the victim, the finger of suspicion points at Bradford. Writing in ""The"
"""Household Ghosts"" (1961), ""The Mindbenders"" (1963), ""The Bells of Shoreditch"" (1963), ""Some Gorgeous Accident"" (1967), ""The Cost of Living like This"" (1969) and ""Silence"" (1972) - the final two works were posthumous. Household Ghosts was adapted as a feature film entitled ""Country Dance,"" while a short story, ""The Dollar Bottom"", was adapted as a short film, winning an Academy Award in 1981. A stage adaptation of ""Some Gorgeous Accident"" was presented at the Assembly Rooms as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August 2010. He was also a successful screenwriter. His films include ""Violent Playground"" (1958), ""Tunes of Glory"""
"The Long and the Short and the Tall (play) The Long and the Short and the Tall is a play written by British playwright Willis Hall. Set in the Second World War, the play premiered at the Royal Court Theatre in London in January 1959; it was directed by Lindsay Anderson and starred Peter O'Toole and Robert Shaw. It was Anderson's first major production for the Royal Court, transferring to London's West End in April 1959. The play's name comes from the lyrics of the 1917 song ""Bless 'Em All"". A film adaptation was released in 1961. Directed by Leslie"
"he is lured to a country house and confronts a group of men in possession of a bomb. The resulting intrigue finally appears to jolt his memory back into place, and he believes he has found the explanation for what has been going on. Pit of Darkness Pit of Darkness is a 1961 British thriller film, directed by Lance Comfort and starring William Franklyn and Moira Redmond. The film is an amnesia thriller dealing with a man's attempts to piece together a sequence of strange events in which he seems to have been involved during the time of which he"
"Tamara Asseyev Tamara Asseyev is an American film producer and writer. She began her career in the film industry as a production assistant for Roger Corman, working on such films as ""The St. Valentine's Day Massacre"" (1967) and ""The Trip"" (1967). She directed a five-minute prologue for Corman's ""The Pit and the Pendulum"" (1961) when that film was sold to ABC-TV in 1968, as the network had asked for the film to be padded slightly to fit a two-hour slot (with commercials). In the late 1960s, Asseyev began producing low-budget independent films, including Daniel Haller's ""Paddy"" (1970) and Curtis Hanson's"
"in newsreel detail by Haskell Wexler, lend polish and support to the fast pace maintained by the director, Irvin Kershner, whose experience stems largely from television."" The Hoodlum Priest The Hoodlum Priest is a 1961 film by Irvin Kershner, based on the life of Father Charles ""Dismas"" Clark of St. Louis, who ministered to men in prison and men coming out of prison. During his career Fr. Clark earned the nickname ""The Hoodlum Priest."" The film was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. The movie stars Don Murray who also co-produced and co-wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym Don"
"including starring roles in ""Life Begins at 17"" and ""Reform School Girls"" along with Sally Kellerman. She made her broadway debut with Rex Harrison in ""The Reluctant Debutante"" directed by Peter Brooks, which was later made into a film. Her best known performances may have been as Vincent Price's sister in Corman's ""The Pit and the Pendulum"" (1961) and as a murder victim in Francis Ford Coppola's ""Dementia 13"" (1963). She appeared in Curtis Harrington's cult film ""Night Tide"" (1961) opposite Dennis Hopper. Hopper would later cast her as one of the hippie commune girls who go skinny dipping with"
"The Long and the Short and the Tall (film) The Long and the Short and the Tall (released as Jungle Fighters in the USA and Canada) is a 1961 British war film directed by Leslie Norman, which stars Richard Todd, Richard Harris, Laurence Harvey, David McCallum and Ronald Fraser. The film, which is based on a 1959 play with the same name, by Willis Hall, takes place in 1942 during the Malayan Campaign. The title comes from the second line of the First World War song ""Bless 'Em All"", which became very popular during the Second World War. During the"
"critics Penelope Gilliatt and Dilys Powell had also praised it at the time of its release. The Impersonator The Impersonator is a 1961 low-budget black and white British thriller film directed and co-written by Alfred Shaughnessy. An American angle and U.S. character actor John Crawford were incorporated to give this second feature some transatlantic box office appeal. In an effort to improve relations between a US air force base and the sleepy local English village nearby, airman Sergeant Jimmy Bradford organises a school trip to see the pantomime ""Mother Goose"". Meanwhile a prowling killer is on the loose and after"
"was not made; neither were two comedies he was to make with Dick Miller and Jon Haze, ""Murder at the Convention"" and ""Pan and the Satyrs"". ""House of Usher"" had been so successful the AIP wanted a follow up, and Corman, Haller, Matheson and Price reunited on ""The Pit and the Pendulum"" (1961). It was another sizeable hit and the ""Poe cycle"" of films was underway. Corman hired Charles Beaumont to write ""Masque of the Red Death"" and announced two films, ""Captain Nemo and the Floating City"" and ""House of Secrets"". Following ""Pit and Pendulum""' Corman directed one of William"
"kidnap victim Yisrael Bryskman with rat torture unless he agreed to give his wife a get. He was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment for assisting in a kidnapping. Rats are featured in the Edgar Allan Poe story ""The Pit and the Pendulum"". The narrator lies on the rack, and can only watch as a scythe swings back and forth, approaching closer each time, as rats swarm over his body. The narrator later manages to make the rats eat through the straps. An account similar to the Sonoy torture appears in the 1899 Octave Mirbeau novel ""The Torture Garden"", and psychologist"
"2003. The Hole (1962 film) The Hole is a 15-minute animated film by John Hubley and Faith Hubley that won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1962. The film uses improvised dialogue from Dizzy Gillespie and George Mathews as two construction workers at work in the bottom of a hole on a construction site discussing the possibility of an accidental nuclear weapons attack. In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". The Academy Film Archive preserved ""The Hole"""
"autograph cards by both Jonathan Haze and Jackie Joseph. The Little Shop of Horrors The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 American comedy film directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a farce about an inadequate florist's assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human flesh and blood. The film's concept is thought to be based on a 1932 story called ""Green Thoughts"", by John Collier, about a man-eating plant. However, Dennis McDougal suggests that Griffith may have been influenced by Arthur C. Clarke's sci-fi short story from 1956, ""The Reluctant Orchid"" (which"
"made in a studio, we never set foot outside for a month. I asked to go on location, but a jungle's pretty claustrophobic, for sure"". The Long and the Short and the Tall (film) The Long and the Short and the Tall (released as Jungle Fighters in the USA and Canada) is a 1961 British war film directed by Leslie Norman, which stars Richard Todd, Richard Harris, Laurence Harvey, David McCallum and Ronald Fraser. The film, which is based on a 1959 play with the same name, by Willis Hall, takes place in 1942 during the Malayan Campaign. The title"
"Beware the Cat Beware the Cat (1561) is a short English novel (or is that ""novella""?) written by the printer's assistant and poet William Baldwin (sometimes called Gulielmus Baldwin), in early 1553. It is notable as the first horror fiction text longer than a short story and has also been claimed by some academics as the first novel ever published in English of any kind. The work languished unpublished after 1553, due to the change in the political climate under Mary Tudor, but it was published, perhaps with some revision, in 1561 in an edition suppressed by the state, now"
"The Worm and the Ring The Worm and the Ring is a 1961 novel by English novelist Anthony Burgess, drawing on his time as a teacher at Banbury Grammar School, Oxfordshire, England, in the early 1950s. It is Burgess's version of the Ring Cycle. The Dragon pub in the novel corresponds to the worm and a purloined diary to the ring. The novel was withdrawn from circulation following a libel action by Gwendoline Bustin, the secretary of Banbury Grammar School, where Burgess had taught in the early 1950s. Several characters were recognisable as figures from the school, but only Miss"
"The Little Shop of Horrors The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 American comedy film directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a farce about an inadequate florist's assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human flesh and blood. The film's concept is thought to be based on a 1932 story called ""Green Thoughts"", by John Collier, about a man-eating plant. However, Dennis McDougal suggests that Griffith may have been influenced by Arthur C. Clarke's sci-fi short story from 1956, ""The Reluctant Orchid"" (which was in turn inspired by the 1905 H. G."
"the Body"" (1963), had ""shown me an Italian print of ""The Pit and the Pendulum"" before I started writing it: 'Give us something like this', they said."" When asked if another of his films, ""The Long Hair of Death"" (1964), was inspired by Corman's film, Gastaldi replied, ""Yes, of course! ""The Pit and the Pendulum"" had a big influence on Italian horror films. Everybody borrowed from it."" Stephen King felt that one of the film's most powerful shocks—the discovery of Elizabeth's hideously decayed corpse—had a major impact on the genre and served as one of the most significant horror sequences"
"Death and the Senator ""Death and the Senator"" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. It was originally published in 1961 and has since been included in several collections of Clarke's writings. Set in an unspecified year, but a few years before 1976, the story tells of Martin Steelman, an American Senator and potential Presidential candidate. As a member of a Senate committee, he has used his influence and rhetoric to refuse funding for an astrobiology project. Some years later, he learns that he has a potentially fatal cardiac condition. Thereupon, he hears from one"
"of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale. The Pit and the Pendulum was executive produced by animation icon Mr. Ray Harryhausen, joined by DINOSAPIEN producer Pete Denomme and Fred Fuchs. The program focuses on what would happen if dinosaurs had continued to exist and evolve into more intelligent beings (Lauren mentions in the opening credits ""Everyone thinks dinosaurs are extinct, but what if they're wrong?""). It is set at Dinosaur Explorer Camp, a dinosaur-themed summer camp in Canada, where Dr. Hillary Slayton lives with her teenage daughter Lauren. Dr Slayton's husband Alan mysteriously disappeared on a fossil expedition into the Badlands"
"disappearances, intrigues, kidnappings, and love. The Phantom of Morrisville The Phantom of Morrisville () is a Czech comedy film directed by Borivoj Zeman. It was released in 1966. The movie is a parody on Western mystical thrillers and horror films, in particular—1961 film ""The Pit and the Pendulum"". A musician from the symphony orchestra reads an English thriller novel during the concert, while performing his parts of the Georges Bizet's opera ""Carmen"". The book makes so strong an impression on him that he imagines himself to be the novel's protagonist, Sir Hannibal Morris, an owner of a huge Gothic castle."
"The Dock Brief The Dock Brief (US title Trial and Error) is a 1962 black-and-white British legal satire directed by James Hill, starring Peter Sellers and Richard Attenborough, and based on the play of the same name written by John Mortimer (creator of Horace Rumpole). The film had its world premiere on 20 September 1962 at the Plaza Theatre in London's West End. Richard Attenborough was nominated for the 1963 BAFTA Award for best British actor for his role. In a cell under the Old Bailey, two men meet. One is Wilfred Morgenhall, an unmarried barrister who never gets any"
"The Hoodlum Priest The Hoodlum Priest is a 1961 film by Irvin Kershner, based on the life of Father Charles ""Dismas"" Clark of St. Louis, who ministered to men in prison and men coming out of prison. During his career Fr. Clark earned the nickname ""The Hoodlum Priest."" The film was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. The movie stars Don Murray who also co-produced and co-wrote the screenplay under the pseudonym Don Deer. Father Charles Dismas Clark, a Jesuit priest in St. Louis, dedicates his life to the rehabilitation of delinquents and ex-convicts. By meeting them on their"