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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 19990814
Author:Holston, Noel

1/3 - Just as "Psycho" fostered fear of showers, 1961's "The Pit and the Pendulum" (7:30 p.m. today, AMC) made some people phobic about basements. Liberally adapted by director Roger Corman and screenwriter Richard Matheson from an Edgar Allan Poe short story, "The Pit" is a moody melodrama about a Spanish nobleman (Vincent Price) who goes mad and finds creative new uses for a below-ground torture chamber that his father built for the Inquisition.

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