I have to say, I ABSOLUTELY loved the Pit and the Pendulum. I saw this play in high school. I am not a fan of horror movies or scary movies at all. In fact, I hate them :p there is something about them however that draws you into them to where you can not help but be curious and not turn off the t.v. The pit and the pendulum was like this for me. The way the mind works under this kind of experience makes it seem like it was going insane, the body was not there. Our biggest fears would be what we call the "unknown." In this story, the unknown was exactly what was being portrayed. Darkness, the unknown, and fear, it all shows how the mind reacts within the body.
ps. I commented on Jamie K.
Once we find out what the unknown is, we are never as scared. Sometimes our body can be unreliable when we are scared as well. We may act in a different way when we are scared because we overreact.
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