Corrected entry: The height of the pendulum keeps changing.
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
1 corrected entry
Directed by: Roger Corman
Starring: Vincent Price, John Kerr, Barbara Steele, Luana Anders
Continuity mistake: After Don Nicholas Medina has been killed by Maximillian and he and Catherine Medina stop the pendulum from slicing Francis Barnard in half any more than he has, there was a close up of the bloody blade being lifted up from his body. It was completely still, but in the next shot the shadow shows the blade still in movement as does the next far shot.
Don Nicholas Medina: Do you know where you are, Bartolome? I'll tell you where you are. You are about to enter Hell, Bartolome, hell... The netherworld.The infernal region, The Abode of the Damned... The place of torment. Pandemonium. Abbadon. Tophet. Gehenna. Naraka. THE PIT... And the pendulum.
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Correction: The height of the blade is supposed to keep changing, getting a little closer to the victim with each succeeding swing. If it did not change, what would be the point?
Kevin Hall