The Pit and the Pendulum

“Betrayal cuts both ways!”

Francis Barnard (John Kerr) crosses sixteenth-century Spain to a seaside castle, where his sister has died and no one will say how. Her widower Nicholas Medina (Vincent Price), son of a cruel Inquisitor, answers every question with a flinch and a half-finished sentence. Roger Corman puts Francis in those candlelit halls, where each answer leaves him more uneasy, and he keeps asking.