Movies like The Pit and the Pendulum
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The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive!
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, classic horror, creepy, disturbing, grindhouse ...
Plot:
spanish inquisition, castle, torture, murder, insanity, investigation, vengeance, inquisition, monster, macabre, gory, edgar allan poe, religions or cults, danger, hidden identity, haunted by the past, dishonesty, witch, medieval, renaissance, supernatural, occult, death, ghost, twists and turns ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, 16th century, medieval times, 14th century, year 1961, 1800s ...
Place:
europe, spain
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Most similar movies to The Pit and the Pendulum
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, scary, gothic and serious films with plots about macabre, supernatural, danger, murder, ghost, monster and deadly mostly in Horror, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Pit and the Pendulum: The Masque of the Red Death (1964), Tower of London (1962), Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Raven (1963), Session 9 (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. He orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst an atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry ...
Style:
gothic, grindhouse, suspense, surreal, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, macabre, edgar allan poe, medieval, supernatural, revenge, life & death, plague, good versus evil, folk horror, brutality, masquerade ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, victorian era
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, grindhouse, classic horror, suspense ...
Plot:
royalty, ghost, medieval, royal family, royal court, hunchback, cruelty, throne, tortured to death, afterlife, ancient, betrayal ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century
Place:
london, england, europe, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
Style:
psychological, classic horror, surreal, psychological horror, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
satanic cult, devil, pregnancy, paranoia, satanism, satanic ritual, witchcraft, secret society, supernatural horror, coven, occult, antichrist ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1965, year 1966, year 1968 ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, persia, eastern europe, usa ...
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help in this film loosely based on the Edgar Allen Poe poem.
Style:
gothic, humorous, gothic horror, cult classic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
castle, magic, magician, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, monster, duel, transformation, revenge, dark humor, edgar allan poe, sorcerer ...
Time:
year 1963, 16th century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror at the public whipping of a child. As Maria’s husband Antonio tries to save her, Torquemada, the ...
Style:
gothic, sexy, creepy, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
spanish inquisition, inquisition, heretic, dungeon, edgar allan poe, religions or cults, danger, good versus evil, supernatural, clergy, woman in danger, telepathy ...
Time:
15th century, year 1991, medieval times, 90s, middle ages
Place:
spain, europe
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Style:
twist ending, psychological, psychological horror, dark, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental institution, macabre, psychology, twists and turns, haunted, mental illness, hospital, ghost, insanity, transformation, murder, obsession ...
Time:
year 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, gothic, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, mental patient, insanity, plot twist, psychiatrist, edgar allan poe, madhouse, doctors and patients, doctor, macabre ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1800s, year 1900
Place:
england, britain, usa, oxford university, tuscany ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish ...
Style:
atmospheric, cult classic, dark, gothic, creepy ...
Plot:
carnival, afterlife, female protagonist, ghost, supernatural, car accident, surrealism, nervous breakdown, american horror, boarding house, spirit, coffee ...
Time:
year 1962
Place:
salt lake city utah, utah, usa, kansas
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
Style:
gothic, dark, creepy, scary, gothic horror ...
Plot:
haunted, supernatural, haunting, old mansion, macabre, children, hide and seek, ghost story, haunted house, schizophrenia, insanity, paranoid ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1961, 1860s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there who may or may ...
Style:
creepy, atmospheric, scary, slasher, cult classic ...
Plot:
vampire, lake, cemetery, haunted, hearse, zombie, ghost, musician, hearing voices, farmhouse, boat, mental illness ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
connecticut, new england, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in ...
Style:
atmospheric, scary, disturbing, intense, harsh ...
Plot:
redemption, medieval, ghost, supernatural, brother brother relationship, gay, guilt, folk horror, haunted by the past, rural setting, swamp, remorse ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, year 2008
Place:
finland, europe, russia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are ...
Style:
gothic, dark, atmospheric, bleak, period piece ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
medieval, plague, witch, knight, sword and sorcery, danger, monk, heroic mission, dealing with death, sword and shield, bubonic plague, pagan ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 14th century, year 2010
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After she’s permanently blinded in a tragic car accident, Rebecca receives some bizarre news: her long-lost mother has recently passed away, leaving her their family’s ancestral castle in rural Albania. Traveling to the estate with a group of ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, lovecraft, psychotronic, brutal ...
Plot:
castle, raped by monster, mansion, murder, isolation, revenge, prisoner, tragedy, blind woman, framed for murder, cthulhu, cosmic horror ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A young couple inherit a farm and hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by supernatural forces.
Style:
suspense, spooky, psychotronic, satanic
Plot:
folk horror, witch, coven, torture, sacrifice, paranormal, curses spells and rituals, macabre, darkness, reincarnation, birth, troubled marriage ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
new york, massachusetts
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord ...
Style:
gothic, surreal, sexy, gothic horror, creepy ...
Plot:
insanity, demon, surrealism, mad scientist, seance, goth, mind game, obsession, drug, haunted house, hallucination, writers ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s, regency period
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, lovecraft, serious, tense ...
Plot:
curse, afterlife, edgar allan poe, mansion, burned alive, haunted house, cosmic horror, ghost, murder, mutant, haunted, cthulhu ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, anthology, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, zombie, reincarnation, supernatural, vengeance, edgar allan poe, afterlife, ghost, monster, infidelity, experiment gone awry, family problems ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s, 20th century, 19th century
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Story about a man haunted by the spirit of his dead wife and her effect on his second marriage.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, grindhouse, surreal, suspense ...
Plot:
edgar allan poe, cemetery, black cat, supernatural, monster, cat, nobility, folk horror, ghost, macabre, obsession, stonehenge ...
Time:
19th century, 1820s, victorian era
Place:
england
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction--with even more grotesque results! The audience gets an opportunity ...
Style:
gothic, slasher, gothic horror, grindhouse, suspense ...
Plot:
disfigured, disfigured face, leech, castle, monster, doctor, lottery ticket, macabre, disfigurement, torture, baron, masked man ...
Time:
year 1961, 19th century, 20th century, 1880s
Place:
europe, london
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, creepy, gothic ...
Plot:
inquisition, witch, folk horror, torture, witch hunt, nudity, murder, vengeance, violence, exploitation, priest, sadism ...
Time:
17th century, year 1968, 60s
Place:
england, europe, latin america
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
Style:
gothic horror, psychological, bleak, gothic, slasher ...
Plot:
fear, edgar allan poe, obsession, tomb, eccentric family, haunted by the past, crumbling marriage, buried alive, wedding, mental illness, sleep disorder, monster ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic, cult horror, classic horror ...
Plot:
torture device, snake, edgar allan poe, torture chamber, vengeance, supernatural, macabre, occult, public execution, fake priest, thief, dead body ...
Time:
year 1967, 19th century, 1810s
Place:
germany
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
afterlife, witch, castle, curse, torture chamber, supernatural, hanging, auction, murder, investigation, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
15th century, year 1972, 70s
Place:
austria, europe
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Aristocrat Julian Markham keeps his disfigured brother, Sir Edward, locked in a tower of his house. Occasionaly Sir Edward escapes and causes havoc around the town.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, classic horror, scary ...
Plot:
edgar allan poe, curse, vengeance, danger, obsession, supernatural, zombie, serial killer, brother brother relationship, monster, murderer, bare breasts ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, year 1969, victorian era, year 1865
Place:
africa, london, england
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An 18th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.
Style:
medical horror, gothic horror, scary, gothic, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, dracula, supernatural, evil child, uncover truth, investigation, witch, village, haunted by the past, mysterious character, vengeance, danger ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, year 1966, 20th century
Place:
europe, romania
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman's dreary home and no one will explain or ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, scary, creepy, terrifying ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, afterlife, mysterious character, uncover truth, haunted house, danger, who done it, haunted by the past, murder, haunted, small town life ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, edwardian era
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost.
Style:
gothic, scary, dark, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, fear, boarding school, supernatural horror, afterlife, ghost child, death, macabre, writers, haunted by the past ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 2000, post world war one
Place:
england, europe, britain, seattle, london
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire ...
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, sexy, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, couple relations, supernatural horror, woman in danger, danger, haunted by the past, infidelity, supernatural, couples, adultery, psychology ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
vermont, persia, usa, boston
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A writer accepts a wager that he cannot spend the night alone in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve. Once night falls at the castle, several who had been murdered therein return to life, reliving their deaths and seeking to kill the writer for ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, suspense, grindhouse, atmospheric ...
Plot:
haunted, ghost, edgar allan poe, supernatural, haunting, halloween, tomb, writers, snake, reporter, lgbt, love story ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, gothic, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
ghost, doll, ventriloquist, macabre, small town, clown, investigation, supernatural horror, puppet, supernatural, plot twist, danger ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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