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It is the terrorizing story of a person sentenced to death who becomes
the plaything of their jailers.
They are sent walking through a dark
room in hopes they will fall into a pit. When that doesn’t happen they
are tied down on a table to watch the painfully slow descent of a
swinging pendulum with a sharp-edged blade aimed at their stomach.
What happens after escaping the blade?
Dramatizing the works of Edgar A. Poe with a few simple elements. Surrounding the characters in limbo to inspire the audience to focus on the word imagery.
The overwhelming success of “Pit & Pendulum” drives the concept for a series of Poe stories in the same style.
Pamela Gardner The Prisoner
Kristi Boulton The Voice
Adapted for the screen by J. Adric Gaudet.
"By offering an incomplete image or process, Edgar Allan Poe involved his readers in the creative process."
Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media, 1964.