Review – The Pit and the Pendulum (2009)

At first I thought this piece of crap would have Poe spinning in his grave. Instead, I think his back-from-the-dead response would be something more like, “Okay, this has nothing at all whatsoever to do with my work, so I guess I’m not too upset about it. However, I wish they hadn’t used my name or the title of one of my better stories.” A group of standard young people shows up at a typical creepy house for an unimaginative sinister experiment leading to thoroughly predictable results. The only thing that distinguishes this from most other productions of its ilk is a large dose of homoerotic soft-core, the kind where everyone keeps their pants on. As a result, the cast is the usual pack of folks who aren’t talented enough to get work in movies where they don’t have to undress most of the way. I should also note that in the first player I used to view this DVD the subtitles wouldn’t turn off no matter what I tried. It worked better in the second one, which is fortunate because otherwise you’d find this in the abandoned movies list (which is probably where it should have ended up anyway). See if desperate