Poe & Vincent Price Film Series: The Pit & the Pendulum

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

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Just in time for Halloween, join us for a spook-tacular film series featuring three classic adaptations of the works of Edgar Allan Poe starring the inimitable “master of menace” Vincent Price.


Wed. October 3rd: THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (1960)

Wed. October 10th: THE PIT & THE PENDULUM (1961)

Wed. October 24th: THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964)


Each movie is preceded by a specially-themed Gothic horror craft workshop at 6:30PM. 

Movie starts at 7:00PM


The Pit & the Pendulum (1961): Having learned of the sudden death of his sister Elizabeth (Barbara Steele), Francis Bernard (John Kerr) sets out to the castle of his brother-in-law, Nicholas Medina (Vincent Price), to uncover the cause of her untimely demise. A distraught, grief-stricken Nicolas can only offer the vaguest explanations of Elizabeth’s death – at first citing “something in her blood”, but later asserting that she quite literally “died of fright”. With Francis determined to get to the bottom of this mystery, the terrible truth will not stay buried long.

Frightful fashion workshop:  Join us before the movie to create your very own Pit & the Pendulum-inspired Tudor ruff.



Event Type(s): Arts, Culture and Entertainment
Age Group(s): Adults