The Pit and the Pendulum

“A bizarre descent into hell from the creator of Re-Animator.”

Spain, at the height of the Inquisition, and a public whipping of a child draws a cry of horror from Maria, who is arrested as a witch for it. Her husband Antonio sets out to get her free, while the Grand Inquisitor Torquemada (Lance Henriksen) decides the desire she stirs in him deserves punishment, hers. Stuart Gordon, working loosely from Poe, puts Maria in a cell and Antonio against the clock.