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On May 31, 1991 “The Pit and the Pendulum” was given a limited theatrical release! Directed by Stuart Gordon and based on the 1842 short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The film is an amalgamation of the aforementioned story with Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado", and it also appropriates the anecdote of "The Sword of Damocles", reassigning it to the character of Torquemada. It stars Lance Henriksen, Jeffrey Combs, Tom Towles, Oliver Reed, Mark Margolis and Rona De Ricci. | On This Day In Horror