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 Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 3:53 am Post subject: Matheson's script freel |
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When Roger Corman's House of Usher was released in June 1960, its box office success took AIP's James H. Nicholson and Samuel Z. Arkoff by surprise. Corman admitted, “We anticipated that the movie would do well, but not half as well as it did.” According to Richard Matheson, “When the first film was a hit, they still didn't consider doing a Poe series. They just wanted another movie with a Poe title fixed to it.”[5] The Pit and the Pendulum was announced in August 1960, and filming began the first week of January 1961. According to Lucy Chase Williams's book, The Complete Films of Vincent Price, the shooting schedule was fifteen days, and the film's budget was almost $1 million.[6] Corman himself has said that the film's actual production cost was approximately $300,000.[7][8][9]
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Matheson's script freely devised an elaborate narrative that barely resembled Poe, with only the finale having any similarity at all to the original short story on which the film was based. Corman noted, "The method we adopted on The Pit and the Pendulum was to use the Poe short story as the climax for a third act to the motion picture, because a two-page short story is not about to give you a ninety-minute motion picture. We then constructed the first two acts in what we hoped was a manner faithful to Poe, as his climax would run only a short time on the screen."[10]
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