The Fall of the House of Usher /The Pit and the Pendulum

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THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER: Audio Commentary by Director Roger Corman Original Theatrical Trailer THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM: Rare Prologue

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VINCENT PRICE ....... GENIUS .......2007-08-28

YES, THATS WHAT I SAID GENIUS . PRICE BRINGS SO MUCH ENERGY AND FUN TO THESE TWO INCREDIBLY MOODY AND ATMOSPHERIC CLASSICS IT WOULD BE CRIMINAL NOT TO BUY THIS PACKAGE . THESE TWO FILMS SHOWCASE NOT ONLY A BRAND OF HORROR RARELY SEEN THESE DAY ( EXCEPTION TIM BURTONS SLEEPY HOLLOW )OMINOUS AND CREEPY, BUT THEY ALSO GIVE THE FILM BUFF A GLIMPSE OF THE FANTASTIC FILMING OF MAVERICK ROGER CORMAN . I CANNOT RECOMMEND A BETTER DOUBLE FEATURE IF YOU LIKE ME ENJOY LATE NIGHT CREATURE FEATURES ON A SATURDAY NIGHT . A BARGAIN .

Side B.......2007-05-14

I love the Pit and the Pendulum, and the set is a good bargain as well as a good match. I can never get my 10 year old son to watch older movies with me. I had also tried to engage him in Poe stories in book form. But when his teacher read them in class, he finally became interested enough to see these, and he really likes Poe now.
On the DVD they place one movie on one side of the disc, and the the second movie "the Pit and the Pendulum" on the reverse side, side B. I have other movies like this and it seems to work OK. Make sure you at least "test" the DVD when it arrives, I failed to do so until too late, only to learn that the side B of my copy did not work. It was a good enough story for me to bite the bullet and buy another copy.

Great Corman double bill.......2007-02-17

The first two American International-Roger Corman Poe features on one dvd -- great idea, and fine execution. Corman's commentary is very nice to have as well. Pit and Pendulum I first saw at a drive in when I was quite young, and the movie scared the hell out of me. These films have high, for AIP, production values, and look great here. My only question is the odd "theatrical prologue" for Pit and Pendulum, which is not really explained. I do not recall seeing it on the film's first release. Still, this is a dvd I would highly recommend for Corman and AIP and gothic horror fans.

Good Spook For the Buck.......2007-02-12

The master of terror does not fail us in these tales that warp your perception of reality. The plots and twists are a good tribute to Poe who would have loved to work with Price. I highly recomend this.

2 stories, Vincent Price and Edgar Allan Poe for under $10.00.......2007-01-19

If you like old horror films these are great. The price makes them a bargain. Renting these seperately would cost about as much as buying them. I like old horror films but I can't quite give these more than 3 stars. They are good movies but just not quite 4 stars. Of course, the price easily makes up for that. I especially like Edgar Allan Poe stories. If you like to read, Amazon has the Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe in one book.

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HOUSE OF USHER 2
"The shrieking of the mutilated victims became the music of his life."
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The Pit and the Pendulum
Starring: Vincent Price , John Kerr (II) , Barbara Steele , Luana Anders , and Antony Carbone
Director: Roger Corman
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Release Date: 2001-06-05

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The Fall of the House of Usher's success in 1960 spurred American International Pictures to quickly launch another production based on an Edgar Allan Poe story. While producer-director Roger Corman had hoped to next adapt "The Masque of the Red Death" (which wasn't produced until 1964), Pit and the Pendulum (the onscreen title) became the second in AIP's long-running Poe series. Set in post-Inquisition Spain, the film stars John Kerr as a young Englishman who travels to the seaside castle of his brother-in-law (Vincent Price) to uncover the circumstances behind the death of his sister (a dubbed Barbara Steele). Price is tormented by memories of his mother's premature burial by his inquisitor father (also Price) and fears that this sadistic legacy has contributed to Steele's demise. Furthermore, he believes that Steele was also buried alive--a belief compounded by the mysterious destruction of her room, and the sound of her harpsichord playing in the night...

Structured almost identically to Usher, Richard Matheson's script fleshes out the brief original text with a fast-paced and twist-filled plot that never loses sight of the psychological themes of Poe's work. It also provides Price with the richest of his many AIP/Poe roles, a sympathetic, deeply emotional man who is unhinged by the sins of his father. Corman's direction is equally driven and fluid, and features some impressive quasi-psychedelic visuals in the tense climax. Also noteworthy is art director's Daniel Haller's impressive design of the title set piece. MGM's widescreen DVD features commentary by Corman, which focuses primarily on the film's technical aspects. Also included is the original trailer and a prologue (shot by Norma Rae producer Tamara Asseyev) featuring costar Luana Anders, which was added to fill out the film's 1968 television broadcast. --Paul Gaita

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Great.......2007-01-10

Great experience with this group. Quick response and turn around. Excellent Job!

The Pit and the Pendulum Not Satisfying!.......2006-11-17

My opinion on "The Pit and the Pendulum" is not very satisfying. I liked the storyline, but not the way the director expressed it. It was very unthoughtful. The director should have put the story into other people's perspectives. For instance, the director could have made some of the flashback scenes black and white, instead of blue. The torture chamber could have been a bit more gruesome instead of "lolly fairy-land!"
The story begins with Elizabeth. As the story goes on, we experience the hysteria of Elizabeth's death. And as the story ends, we find that Elizabeth did what she did for love.
This movie is best for audiences ages twelve and older. Younger audiences would be frightened and wouldn't understand why things would go as they go.
As I watched on, I came to find out that Vincent Price played Nicholas, husband of Elizabeth and a mental patient! He was rated 2 1/2 stars for his performance. I feel he could have used more facial expressions and he could have used more action to show his relation to the character.
According to the overall storyline, I can honestly say it was very unpredictable. One event would happen, it would lead to the next, then BOOM! - something totally unexpected would happen!
The angles at which the movie was shot was very straight-forward. I feel that the camera men could have used more precise angles and could have "captured the moment" more clearly. The special effects manager could have used more effects and could have made the flashback moments clearer, not with a blue undertone.
The music in this film was very old - more classical than twenty-first century. Improvements I would have made are to make the flashbacks more visible and use language that younger people could understand. But Edgar Allan Poe wrote this very nicely, as he grabs the readers' attention and builds suspense.

HOUSE OF USHER 2.......2006-07-17

Success breeds excess, so following HOUSE OF USHER, AIP asked Roger Corman for a follow-up. Some films you CAN'T do sequels to... but this never seems to stop anybody. Now, while USHER and PIT have nothing to do with each other, if one were to, say, watch them back-to-back, based on the many story elements they DO have in common, one might mistake the 2nd film's title for HOUSE OF USHER 2 !!!

Both films have the identical opening. A man who's traveled far has trouble getting into a big mansion, and inquires about a woman. In the original, it was a guy wanting to see his fiance, and her brother-- who's going mad-- refuses, claiming it's for the best. In this one, the guy inquires after his DEAD sister-- and her husband-- Price-- greets him warmly, but as things progress, his sanity slips away.

The 1st was elegant in its simplicity. The 2nd, an "original" story (heh) is more "the kitchen sink" category. I mean, what a GREAT flick. This thing tries to hit ALL the bases. Spooky castle-- dead woman-- crypt in the basement-- TORTURE CHAMBER in the basement. There's a story about how Price's late wife became obsessed with the torture chamber, accidentally got locked in and died of fright. Ther's another story about how as a boy, Price saw his father (an infamous member of The Inquisition) accuse HIS wife & brother of adultery, and after killing his brother, had tortured his wife TO DEATH (some house, huh?). And then people start hearing harpsichord music in the night-- when it was the dead wife who played it all the time. There's even a secret passageway in the walls. It just keeps stacking up higher and higher as it goes.

It's not often a really good film that becomes successful spawns an equally good follow-up. I'd say this was one of 'em.

This film has something in common with the 007 film, OCTOPUSSY. Both are not really adaptations of the stories they take their names from-- but, in effect, SEQUELS to them.

Among the cast was Price's sister-- played by (I took note) Luana Anders. I had to look it up, but she'd also been in the memorable OUTER LIMITS episode-- "The Guests". Geez!!! One of the really FREAKIN' WEIRD ones!!! That's the one about the house inhabited by an alien from space, where time stands still and nobody ever ages... UNLESS they leave, and then time catches up, all at once. I'd have to look it up, but I'd BET that sicko Joe Stefano wrote that one. He did most of the REALLY whacked-out one the 1st year (he was one of the show's 3 exec. producers).

Anyway... Unlike USHER, in PIT Price starts out on the friendly-- but shaky-- side. Then he degenerates into sad & depressed... UNTIL... that scene in the dungeon when they GO TOO FAR. As far as a "#2" film goes, PIT has this in common with PSYCHO II. Wonder if the writers of THAT film thought about this one when they came up with their plot? You have this whole mystery of "What's going on?" and only near the end of the film do you find out, several people have been scheming to drive the poor lead character out of his mind. AND THEY SUCCEED-- all too well! When Price starts smiling down in the dungeon, I found myself saying aloud, "UH OH!!!" several times. And laughing.

For most of the film, it kept bugging me that the doctor and the brother looked so much alike. It's not good to cast 2 actors in the same film who resemble each other. But when the doctor SLIPPED and fell into the pit, suddenly this seeming liability became part of the plot (at least for me), as Price in his madness mistook the brother for the doctor-- and strapped him down on the platform! AAAUGH!!!

And of course, wasn't it just too bad that the brother-- and Price's sister-- NEVER realized that Elisabeth WAS still alive-- and trapped in the dungeon? "No one will ever enter this room again." That was exactly the line Price said earlier in the film...! Nasty, nasty!!

I'd rank this along with RED DEATH and LIGEIA among the top 3 of the series.

"The shrieking of the mutilated victims became the music of his life.".......2006-07-11

Pit and the Pendulum (1961) was the 2nd of numerous successful Edgar Allan Poe inspired collaborations (the first being 1960's The Fall of the House of Usher) between writer/producer/director Roger Corman (It Conquered the World, Teenage Cave Man, The Little Shop of Horrors), writer Richard Matheson (The Incredible Shrinking Man, House of Usher, Tales of Terror), actor Vincent Price (House on Haunted Hill, The Tingler), and American International Pictures or AIP, for short. Also appearing here along with Price is Barbara Steele (Black Sunday, Castle of Blood), John Kerr (Tea and Sympathy, South Pacific), Luana Anders (Easy Rider, The Last Detail), and Antony Carbone (A Bucket of Blood, Last Woman on Earth).

The movie, set in 16th century Spain, begins as we see a man riding in a carriage along a coast approaching a matte painting of an ominous castle. The driver, unwilling to go all the way (isn't that always the case?), drops the man off a good distance from the matte painting...er, I mean castle, where he then has to hoof it the rest of the way. Turns out the man is named Francis Barnard (Kerr), and he's come all the way from England to inquire about the untimely demise of his sister, Elizabeth (Steele). Seems she married one Nicholas Medina (Price), moved into his castle, and then passed away under mysterious circumstances. As Francis arrives at the castle, he meets Nicholas' sister Catherine (Anders), who's returned home to look after the welfare of her brother (apparently Nicholas doted on his wife, and is taking her loss particularly hard). Soon Doctor Charles Leon (Carbone) makes the scene, and Francis learns his sister contracted some strange ailment Nicholas believes came from the `atmospheric miasma of barbarity that permeates the walls of the castle'...you see, Nicholas' father Sebastian was an inquisitor of grand proportions, so much so he had his own, private and extensive torture chamber set up within the caverns beneath the castle which saw a whole lot of action back in the day. After some flashbacks we learn of a couple incidents that occurred during Nicholas' childhood, incidents that have affected him in such a way as to make him a little unbalanced, a situation that isn't helped by the fact that the spirit of his dead wife is now haunting him. Things get a whole lot creepier as Nicholas decides to exhume his wife's corpse (seems she's interred in the crypts below the castle) after which some revelations are made, marking the real decent into madness as the comeuppance is dished out to all deserving, and even to some who aren't...I got to say, the last fifteen minutes alone is worth the price of admission, and that's one hell of a pendulum...

I've always felt The Fall of the House of Usher and Pit and the Pendulum to be among strongest and most accessible of the Poe based Corman films. Price gives an excellent turn as Nicholas, a character plagued by his father's past transgressions, driven to the brink of madness by circumstances beyond his control. Of all the aspects Price brings to these films, the one element that always seems to stand out for me is a sense of class. Price is the star here, and it seemed the rest were very content to follow his capable lead. My favorite bits in this film are when Price, in a dual role, is portraying Sebastian Medina, the inquisitor extraordinaire. He's a loathsome, vindictive character and a hell of a lot of fun to watch. The inclusion of Ms. Steele, who had just come from appearing in Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960), was a bit of inspirational casting, in my opinion, as while her part may not have been large, it certainly was memorable. Few could pull off some of the facial expressions she was capable of, some of them quite frightening (I would have dreaded getting one of her wild-eyed, maniacal stares in the middle of the night). I thought Anders and Carbone did well enough in their roles, but I felt Kerr was slightly miscast. He's certainly a decent actor, but I never felt like he got completely into his role as some of the others...perhaps this an unfair judgment on my part as I think it would be difficult to compete against the likes of a Price or a Steele...ah well, this is was a fairly minor aspect compared to the whole. As far as Richard Matheson's screenplay, it comes off exceptionally well. Even if you're not familiar with the story, I think it's fairly obvious where things are going, but that didn't take anything away for me as the fun here was watching the events unfold. I thought the overall atmosphere of the production, assisted by Les Baxter's ookie musical scoring, went a long way, although I thought the use of the fake cobwebs a bit excessive at times. The usage of various matte paintings was obvious, but they were done well enough as not to take anything away for me. Normally I dislike the inclusion of flashbacks, but I thought they were handled well here as various hues were incorporated dependant on the mood of the flashback (a violent flashback would feature a blood red hue, etc.). I thought Corman's direction quite good but then it's no secret his affinity for the material. The film may seem a little slow going in the beginning, but I didn't mind at all as it allowed for Price to display his talents, and provided for an exceptional build up (as I said earlier, the last fifteen minutes or so are definitely worth hanging around for...). All in all this is an excellent feature, one that I think manages to capture a good deal of the mood within the original material, and just a heck of a lot of fun to watch.

The picture, presented in non-anamorphic widescreen (2.35:1) looks clean and comes across well, while the Dolby Digital mono audio, available in both English and French, felt a bit off at times, coming across a little uneven at times. Special features include a goofy original five-minute prologue segment, which I believe was used to help pad out the running time for television broadcast, an original theatrical trailer (in widescreen no less), a commentary track with Roger Corman, and French and Spanish subtitles. While this film was originally released onto DVD by itself, it was re-released later onto DVD as a double feature with The Fall of the House of Usher, so if you're interesting in purchasing this film, I'd recommend searching out the double feature as you may get a better value.

Cookieman108

GUILT, LUST, REVENGE, INSANITY.......2005-10-25

An Englishman journeys to Spain to investigate the circumstances of his sister's untimely death. At his brother-in-law's castle, perched upon the Mediterranean, his welcome is tentative. His brother-in-law is evasive, and his brother-in-law's sister is protective--and beautiful.

And he glimpses a vile world: A torture chamber. A secret passageway. A pedigree of sadism. A suspicion of premature burial. A suspicion of adultery.

Walk beside Vincent Price as he grapples with crippling grief, then crippling guilt, then all-out madness. Run from Vincent Price as he assumes the identity of his father, an inquisitor, and he laughs whilst strapping an innocent man to the table beneath the patient pendulum.

See the mummified corpse of a woman screaming for escape. Hear a harpsichord in the dead of night. Look upon the bed of a dead wife--left just as it was on her last day of life.

Feel the chills clawing up your spine.

Watch "The Pit And The Pendulum."

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Starring: Lance Henriksen , Stephen Lee , William J. Norris , Mark Margolis , and Carolyn Purdy-Gordon
Director: Stuart Gordon
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One of Full Moon's Best.......2007-02-04

Full Moon made a few very good movies in the early 90s (Subspecies, Puppet Master, Trancers, Demonic Toys) before producing steadily lower quality material and excessive numbers of sequels. They chose quantity over quality (as if there weren't already enough poorly made horror/sci-fi movies to choose from). Now Full Moon's early (good) stuff is out of print and virtually forgotten. One of their best was Pit and the Pendulum, which sports a great cast and all the ingredients for a good horror movie. Perhaps it tries to be too much (historical, cheesy, gothic, religious, perverse, gory, serious, humorous, sexy, crude, and literary) and doesn't quite put it all together coherently. But it was a nice effort and entertaining throughout despite flaws. The scene with the old hag being lit on fire is one of the most outlandish and jaw-dropping I've ever seen! It's hard to encapsulte this movie in just a sentence or two. The title is somewhat misleading in that the movie doesn't follow much in the footsteps of Edgar Allen Poe or Vincent Price. Serious horror fans shouldn't miss this one, even if they have to rummage for it used on VHS.

Suckville.......2006-05-03

this movie sucks! the whole thing about it is awful. i dont know who would want to watch this movie. it has lots of nudity and lots of violence. good thing that it is discontinued. and i hope it stays that way. ill be glad if they dont start making it again. if you havent saw this movie yet please do your self a favor save your money do not rent this film trust me it is not worth it!

Whips, Chains, and Alternative Lifestyles.......2001-07-11

Lance Henriksen's performance as Torquemada gives me chills; I don't think I've ever seen a better study in repression and power. Yeah, this film seems fairly dopey on first viewing, but I think it works. The gore is pretty over the top, which actually plays off the quirky humor.

Oliver Reed puts in a weirdly funny performance as a visiting Cardinal, confirming my early suspicions that he would mature into a really interesting actor. The rest of the cast rises (or falls) to the occasion. Take a look. Not for the squeamish!

This DVD Is The Pits!.......2001-04-23

Lance Henriksen and Jeffrey Combs make a gruesome twosome in this horrifying tale of the Spanish Inquisition, presented in director Stuart Gordon's usual style, a mixture of violence, sex, nudity, gore, and very black humor -- in short, a fine witch's brew of a movie! Henriksen, as far from his portrayal of the emotionless "synthetic human" Bishop in ALIENS as he can get, is the Grand Inquisitor Torquemada here, a man driven by his emotions, religious and otherwise, particularly his lust for the accused witch Maria, played by beautiful Rona De Ricci, who must endure a grueling ordeal by her tormentors. (Making this movie must have been a grueling ordeal for her as well, since she apparently never acted again in anything else! Very unfortunate for her fans!)

Unfortunate, too, is the fact that this DVD seems to have a defect in the Video Zone segment of the bonus features! This is the most interesting feature (the others are: a lengthy chapter index, trailer, merchandise ads, mini-biographies -- but nothing about Rona De Ricci! -- and website info.) since it has the behind-the-scenes stuff and interviews with Gordon and Henriksen, and maybe others, but I don't know, since it doesn't play well at all! It skips and freezes at random, and dies! Very annoying!

This also occurs occasionally during playback of the movie itself (yes, I've cleaned the disc, at least half a dozen times, to no effect!) and despite the very good image quality and sound, I can't recommend this DVD. For this kind of money, everything should work! Full Moon Pictures, be advised!

Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition!.......2001-03-06

OK, sorry, I couldn't resist. Though this is a pretty grim movie at times, I can't hear the phrase "Spanish Inquisition" without going through the Monty Python routine. Once the movie starts, however, I am always so engrossed I forget about the sketch.

This movie had me hooked from the first scene the first time I saw it, but it has that rare quality of actually getting better with every viewing. As many have said, this is without a doubt Full Moon's all-time best. I'm a diehard Stuart Gordon fan, and if it wasn't for Re-Animator, I might say it was Gordon's best, too. By the way, the first scene is very grisly and cold-blooded, and you *know* it's gonna be a great movie when that happens even before the opening credits.

I really wish that this movie got more of a chance for wide release. I remember it being in the theater for maybe one week and then going to video, and the only reason I even knew it existed was from reading Fangoria. Look at the cast- while they aren't all considered "A-list", they are favs among horror and cult fans- Lance Henriksen (Millennium, Aliens) Tom Towles (Henry, Portrait of a Serial Killer), Jeffrey Combs (Re-Animator, From Beyond), Frances Bay (Blue Velvet), Oliver Reed... I think the other strike it has against it is that people see the title (maybe that's why it was changed in some versions, including the R-rated DVD that I rented, to The Inquisitor) and figure it's a travesty to even try to remake.

Don't get me wrong, the original is wonderful, and Vincent Price is, well, Vincent Price and in a class by himself. However, this movie has very little in common with Corman's other than the title, the fact that both movies are based on Poe's work, and that there's a scene towards the end where some unlucky b*stard tries to get free before the pendulum slices him in half. The similarities end there, however, and I don't think it's fair or accurate to call it a remake.

This version is actually set back in Spain during 1492, the REAL inquisition. Lance Henriksen, who can make his voice sound so quietly evil that Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter sounds harmless by comparison, stars as Torquemada. With the assistance of his underlings, he wants to rid the world of witchcraft and heresy, figuring the best way to do this is to torture and kill what seems like 99% of the population (historically, he was said to be responsible of over 100,000 executions). During one ugly public display involving Gordon's wife Carolyn Purdy-Gordon -other than Re-animator, she always seems to come to a horrible end in his movies) the young baker Antonio and his lovely wife Maria make the mistake of trying to intervene, so they assume she's a witch and toss her in the dungeon. In her cell, she's befriended by kindly Esmeralda. In one of the most clever twists, her cellmate turns out to be the one out of the tens of thousands accused who actually IS a witch. Maria's husband tries to save her and of course is immediately arrested as well. Unfortunately for Maria, ole Torq is horrified to find himself secretly attracted to her (he's a monk, and as Henriksen explains in the feauturette, has 'probably never gotten any in his life') and doesn't know how to deal with it. At first it seems like Maria might be able to use this to her advantage, but since Torq is so psychotically religious that he thinks any human emotions are the work of Satan, things just get more complicated and intense from there.

There are several references other than the Pendulum to Poe's work -clever ones, that fit in with the plot and are not just tossed in for the hell of it. Someone is walled up, even quoting the notorious line "For the love of God!" "Yes...for the love of God" is the grim reply. A cask of wine is revealed to be Amontillado. There's also subtle references to "The Premature Burial" and probably more I missed.

One of the elements that is actually kind of amusing in a horrible way is that you have absolutely NO chance against the evil forces in this movie, to the point where it is ludicrous. You're reasonably attractive? You're obviously trying to tempt men and must be a witch. You're ugly? That's also a sign of being a witch. You look normal? You're a witch disguised as a normal person! You're just completely screwed no matter what. Also, if they haven't tortured you yet and you confess first to get it over with? Sorry, no such luck! You might just be trying to avoid torture, so confession doesn't officially count until you've been tortured for days-that is, if you don't die under torture ("Not another one!" a torturer complains in exasperation at one point).

The cast is amazing. There's not even near enough room to list all the great acting in this movie. Standouts are Henriksen, who not only portrays total evil all too convincingly but the inner struggle against his lust for Maria VS his 'holy duty'. Oliver Reed has less than 10 minutes of screen time as a heavy-drinking Cardinal who comes to visit Torquemada and try to get him to ease up on the mass killing a little, but trust me, you'll remember his scene long after the movie is over. Jeffrey Combs, as the scribe with the prince Valiant haircut and huge horn-rimmed Harry Potter glasses who seems to be the only one involved who is "just doing his job" and not getting off on it like all of Torquemada's other flunkies, steals every scene he's in. A less talented actor would have been forgettable in what could have been a boring part, but he makes the most of every second of his screen time. He also gets the some of the best and funniest lines ("How can they confess if they DON'T HAVE TONGUES??"), including the best in the movie along with the actress playing Esmeralda. She's wonderful, and one of the best and most memorable scenes of this, or any horror movie for that matter, involves her show-stopping revenge when she's burned at the stake. As she's being dragged up, Comb's character actually tells her apologetically: "I'm sorry that you weren't properly able to confess. There just wasn't enough time to torture you". Esmeralda: "Thanks anyway".

Customer Reviews:

One of Full Moon's Best.......2007-02-04

Suckville.......2006-05-03

Whips, Chains, and Alternative Lifestyles.......2001-07-11

This DVD Is The Pits!.......2001-04-23

Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition!.......2001-03-06

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