Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit & The Pendulum

Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit & The Pendulum

★ 2.0IMDb Score
Released:2009-04-24
Genre:Horror
Duration:87 min
Director:David DeCoteau
Actors:Lorielle New, Stephen Hansen, Bart Voitila, Michael King, Danielle Demski
Production:Rapid Heart Pictures, Here! Films

Overview:

Seven students answer an advertisement to participate in an experiment to explore how the sensation of pain can be eliminated. Arriving at a secluded institute, they are welcomed by mysterious scientist JB Divay. Initially, JB's fascination with hypnosis, clocks and cactus plants are dismissed by the group as mere eccentricities. But as the students begin to disappear one by one, they begin to question JB's true intentions.

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