The movie "The pit and the Pendulum" was nothing at all like the book. The movie started out as a man walked along the ocean to enter a huge castle. His sister had moved there when she married Dom Madena, but now she was dead. The castle was used to torture Catholics during the Inquisition. Dom Madena believes that the castle has an atmosphere of torture thick with death, and that led to the death …showed first 75 words of 582 total…

…showed last 75 words of 582 total…of chose the pit or the hot iron walls. The pit is supposed to be the ultimate death in the dungeon and the captive doesn't want to die in it.         The movie and the story were so different that if I watched the movie and read the story without knowing the name of either I would say they had nothing at all in common. I definitely wouldn't know they were written by the same author.