I Thought She Was Dead - The Pit and the Pendulum (Vincent Price)
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- čas přidán 6. 10. 2013
- Check out this clip from the Vincent Price masterpiece The Pit and the Pendulum. You can buy the Vincent Price collection here at: www.shoutfactory.com/node/218190
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THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
THE HAUNTED PALACE
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES
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I remember not even being able to look during this scene. Here is a classic clip from my all-time favorite horror film.
No matter how old the film is, this is with final effect the MOST HORRIFYING corpse I have ever seen.
Stephen King has cited this as one of the greatest moments in the history of horror movies
Daniel Ryan I would probably agree. This was too terrifying for me to even look at back in the day..
He's actually the reason I looked up this scene!
Connor Farrell me too!
Scared the hell outta me back in the 60's when I was a kid
But it was nothing like Poe's original story.
I was only 9 years old when I first saw this movie. I'm now 30. And it still sends chills up my spine.
Perhaps the best and most famous exhumation scene in a horror movie ever filmed. Such scenes have terrific psycho-emotional impact. Through our minds, on at least a subconscious level, we briefly think "THAT'S what MY body's gonna look like after I die!"
This is the scariest scene in the whole movie, sacred me so bad when I was a kid. It is still horrifying. I can't look at it.
Then it's best you don't watch a movie like Hereditary (2018).
@@ColtraneTaylor Right, a bunch of naked old people. Terrifying.
True! True! TRUE!
The horror and sadness when a Vincent Price character loses his mind. Brinke Stevens paid excellent homage to this when she wakes up in a coffin believing she’s been buried alive in The Haunting Fear.
so this is how King got into writing
One of the greatest actors ever !
My Favorite movie, anything with Vincent Price is a classic
This would be on ABC's 4:30 movie once a year during Vincent Price week. I remember how I tried to memorize those 2 quick images of that creepy corpse! It scared the hell out of me, but it was fascinating. Great special effect! Always felt bad for the tortured mom being sealed up. This is the stuff of many a nightmare.
Pit and the Pendulum broke my heart; Nicholas deserved so much better, and I'd argue that Elizabeth deserved *worse* for what she put him through.
Can it possibly be worse than what she got?
@@FrakkinToasterLuvva She could've been put under the pendulum instead.
This scene horrified & stuck with me for years.
Brandon Stanley same. I barely remembered this movie but I always remembered this scene and a couple other scenes.
I think I was seven. Yeah, it messed me up. LOL. Like opening a letter or pouring a glass of milk watching it now.
“ Truly artistic and organic filmmaking unlike today…. Everything is psychopathic deranged blood and gory to the extreme.”
Noticed in at least a couple of Vincent Price movies where someone is declared dead just by looking at them. No checking for a pulse or breathing. Always wondered how people got through history if this really was the practice back in the day.
it's no doubt convenient to create some spooky drama! lol
That's the point though - the people who were declaring death in those scenes were in on the conspiracy (along with the "dead" people).
Vincent price was such an horror icon
I stayed up all night in terror after seeing this. My sister and I were horrified by the skeleton!
Also, here's something I still don't get... Later in the movie it's revealed that Elizabeth faked her death to drive Nicolas insane so she could inherit his fortune. So if that's not Elizabeth in the tomb, who is it?
The most plausible explanation I can think of would be that Elizabeth (and/or her co-conspirator Dr. Leon) found a look-alike somewhere and murdered her, most likely by burying the poor woman alive in the tomb meant for Elizabeth. That’s the only way Elizabeth would’ve been able to make the corpse and the overall setup look so convincingly realistic.
And if that’s the case, it makes Elizabeth even more despicable than she already was for what she did to Nicholas, and really makes me wish Francis could’ve learned the truth about his sister’s crimes somehow.
That's likely Nicholas' mother, who actually died screaming and was walled alive. They probably unburied her body and put it in Elizabeth's casket, what makes their whole scheme a lot more cruel to Nicholas. Elizabeth and Dr. Leon deserved their fate tbh
Your question is the one I'm certain lots of people have about this gothic horror classic. And the answer is never so little as obliquely hinted at in the script or action ; in fact not a word is mentioned, period. Do some viewers and/or any critics or reviewers in reference sources consider it to be a continuity flaw ? If so, I've never read anything to such effect, which isn't to say that an author or editor hasn't stated so in a publication somewhere ; quite possibly somebody has. If so, I'd enjoy reading it where it might be available if at all.
It occurred to me as I watched the movie, but I don't think it really matters how. There are ways they could've done it. The important thing is the moment it created. @@Paul-gq2bn
@@ladyblue5004 Gross.
Came here from Stephen Kings "On Writing". Wow, no surprise this is what inspired him to become the legend he is now
It didn't help much when you discover it was all a scam to drive Price's character crazy. That scene has given me the creeps since I was a child.
I was once on a roller coaster and had my photograph taken on the drop and my facial expression bore a striking resemblance to the corpse in this scene. I really wish I'd ponied up the 20 bucks or whatever for a copy of that photograph. Like, the moment I saw the photo my mind immediately went to this scene.
This movie made me laugh at the end
Damn
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This question begs repeating: If Elizabeth is still alive, who is the corpse in the casket?
The most plausible explanation I can think of would be that Elizabeth (and/or her co-conspirator Dr. Leon) found a look-alike somewhere and murdered her, most likely by burying the poor woman alive in the tomb meant for Elizabeth. That’s the only way Elizabeth would’ve been able to make the corpse and the overall setup look so convincingly realistic.
And if that’s the case, it makes Elizabeth even more despicable than she already was for what she did to Nicholas, and really makes me wish Francis could’ve learned the truth about his sister’s crimes somehow.
Who cares?it's a good scare to the movie.
For this movie who did they get the idea from.in this bizzare horror from some real life torture madness any can be driven mad. Like the government is working on me .
It was built in 1820.
Ok but I highly doubt her corpse would freeze like that as she died from oxygen deprivation.
She's been there a while.
1 dislike... why?
Had nightmares.
One of the best scares in movie history.
@@galvinstanley3235not everyday you get a notification for a comment you made half a decade ago.
@@TipeONegatyve What's your point?
@@galvinstanley3235 that 5 years later I got a notification for a comment I made. That never happens. Are you offended or something? Lol.
I thought she WERE dead. Not WAS. Use the subjunctive case for hypotheticals.
The subjunctive is dying out in English. WAS is the normal verb form here.