Read the Empire Movie review of The Pit And The Pendulum. A highly effective merging of star power (both in front and behind the camera) and finely honed...

Pit and the Pendulum, The

This week's selection ranges from a comeback for writer-director Sofia Coppola to a defining example of "body horror".

Pit and the Pendulum is an elaboration of the short Poe classic about blood-letting in 16th- century Spain. The result is a physically stylish, imaginatively...