The theme driving “The Pit and the Pendulum” is the fluidity and subjectivity of history — both micro and macro — and as each character weighs in with their impressions of the volatile ...

The sharpened blade of the pendulum is swinging faster and is reaching lower than ever and it is only a matter of time before heads begin to roll.

Convinced that he's his own father, Medina dons Inquisition robes, straps Francis to a table, and arranges for a huge steel-bladed pendulum to slowly, slooooowwly descend on his helpless victim.

The Pit and the Pendulum — Film Review The fragmentation of knowledge is at the heart of Sohn Young Sung's film, a pseudo-mystery with multiple layers that unfurls minute by minute.