Pit And The Pendulum [Blu-ray]

Not your mama's Pit and the Pendulum...
**Minor Spoiler Alert**
I bought this movie because Lance Henriksen has a starring role in it. I am a huge fan of his and there are definitely scenes in this flick where Henriksen shines. Unfortunately, the rest of the cast, including the great Oliver Reed, appearing in a cameo, don't have much of a script with which to work. Indeed some of the lines are so anachronistic, that they are laughable. Set during the Spanish Inquisition, there is a scene where the male lead, a baker, is strapped to a chair and a fire is lit beneath him. He laughs hysterically and says "If you want to toast my buns, you'll have do a lot better than that!" And so on and so forth.
Picture quality averages under 24Mbps; not great, but a definite step up from SD. There are NO subtitle options. That's cheap. Amazon incorrectly lists this film as having an aspect ratio of 1.33:1 FALSE. It's 1.66:1, widescreen. That's good.
Bottom line: The movie is kinda fun; the female lead is smokin' hot and you...

Some restoration work done but a lot more work to go
One of the better Full Moon titles, in my opinion, this takes place during the Spanish Inquesition. You have your nudity, violence, dark humor and decent sets.

As for the blu-ray itself, I was really disappointed with the restoration work that was done to it. From start to finish, it really didn't look any better than a low end DVD. On the plus side, it's now widescreen as opposed to the fullscreen video of the DVD. While this review may not seem to be glowing, the DVD version looked like a washed out VHS tape, so we're moving in the right direction.

What would be nice is a restoration job similar to Puppet Master and Subspecies but it looks like this is the best we'll get. If you see it for a good price, I'd pick it up.

What gives?
How could this be "temporarily out of stock?"....this movie has never been released on bluray...Its available on dvd but not bluray...how about giving us a release date for the bluray?

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