The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe - Animated Short Film 

anyone had to read this story for school but couldn't comprehend the text alone so they searched for an animated version to better visualize the story and stumbled upon this masterpiece? thanks to whoever animated this I now can complete my assignment!

this is probably the most unsettling video I've ever seen

The onky reason im in tears is because of the animation- as in, the cockroach, the movements, LMAO I JUST CANT RN-

One of my favorites as back in the day in high school this was the first time I was introduced to him....great animation and thank you for this!

This was extremely well-made. And it's good to see that the rendering team has a sense of humor as well lmaoo

LMFAOAOAOAOOAAO the rendering errors were hilarious i was NOT expecting bloopers😭😭😭😭😭💀

Loved this animation, really helped tell the story. Poe is genius

I majored in Literature. This is the book 📕 that snatched my soul. At the age of 11, my 7th. grade English teacher introduced Me to this book and said: “I expect a full book report in one week.” Only ME with this ‘particular’ book 📕. I was always a serious child, so he must’ve figured I was ready. 40 years later, E.A.P. Is still the best writer ✍🏾 in recorded history and even though I’ve never seen my English teacher, I love him and will die with a grateful heart for what he saw in this little boy by introducing me to this beautiful book 📕. Thank you

This story got me into trouble when I was in second grade. We were studying Poe and our assignment was to write a story in that style, which, in the second grade, I took to mean gory horror. The teacher called my mom and told her I needed to see a shrink.

Thanks. Used in high school English class. It was very helpful.

The bloopers got me dead 😂💀

This is so well done, so wonderful, I would never have read this story if it hadn’t been for your animation. Thank you for your creative work.

One of the best storys(by edgar allan poe)♥

Oh my god... this... was... INCREDIBLE. You captured it my good man. I was in tears of fear.

This was a great video lmao 💯

damn i wasnt expecting the bloopers hahahahahaha

So this is why we couldn't watch the end at school

this was done very well, my English teacher plays this in class for our project this made the story much more enjoyable good work.

Amazing Work!

amazing video well done

I did a bok report on this...there's No coincidence in life...

this changed my brain chemistry

This is amazing! Especially the last part of the story is much more clear to me now. For some reason I thought the ceiling was closing in instead of the walls and I didnt know what a (???) (insert archaic word for diamond shape) was

that roach is disgusting

This is amazing! Thanks for doing this!

The narration is awesome, the visuals are too. However, it's a pity you made the chamber so much larger than it really was (the size of a living-room)...

Hellishly Beautiful! Well done!

slayed brother

Brilliant! Thank you. Have you made this? How much time and effort did it take to make?

ty for this

Very nice, love it

Well done. You have a ton of talent and potential.

Yog-Sothoth was in The Pit

This is great

The Catholic Inquisition. Brutal insanity. Priests run amok.

May 24, 2023...5:54 p.m. Happy Memorial Day 2023!!! ADM. MORELOS, SYLVIA LYDIA

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Une animation moderne et mal fichue qui ne correspond visuellement pas à l'univers de Poe !

Mera John si eta viendo eto VPC

Demonic

dark😦😈🖤👎

The booopers 😂😂

To be honest, since I read this story, I always thought it was one of Poe’s weakest ones. First of all, there is nothing that really happens. I mean, sure, the dude is in a scary situation, but nothing comes from that situation. Second, any reference that the protagonist makes to himself writing the tale (“whiter than the sheet on which I trace these words”) is a bad move in my mind. The reader at that point knows he will be okay, so the tension that should be palpable in a story like this is extremely muted. And third, the ending is one of the most anticlimactic endings I have ever read in a Poe story. The French come in and rescue him? Come on. By the way, General Lasalle was not in Toledo. I could nitpick a few more problems I have with this story, but I won’t. If the reader of this comment will indulge me further, here is how I would write the story if I was writing it. It would run with little variation up until the part when the protagonist wakes up from being drugged, only he would wake up to see other prisoners next to him all in a line, and all likewise strapped down. These could even be people the protagonist has met before, since they were all prisoners together. Quick aside, the way that Poe describes the pendulum is not intimidating at all. A foot from horn to horn just doesn’t seem that threatening for a story such as this. I would describe it, not hanging from the painted representation of Time, but from the outstretched hand of a statued representation of Time and nearly 3 or 4 feet from horn to horn. The blade would be attached to a rod about 5 feet long and this whole pendulum would hang by a chain. The statue would be above the chamber, and the chamber itself would be lit because now there would be an open section of roof revealing the statue and the moonlight would produce a ghostly look to it. There could even then be occasion to write about the Inquisition looking down from the opened ceiling to watch the tortured victims inside but, obviously, making no effort to help them. Of course, Poe writes about moments where they peek in, but once the pendulum in seen and the whole roof is gone, they could just be silent figures, staring at them the whole time patiently and even gleefully watching their torture. Anyway, I would describe the protagonist looking up to see this pendulum and how curious it was in appearance. Then, just like in the story, he sees the pendulum just barely starting to swing, in movements nearly imperceptible until he can’t deny that it is, in fact, swinging now, however slowly. He alerts the others and they all scramble in fear, and as the pendulum widens its swing and lowers, the protagonist is the only one who manages to escape just as he did in the story though not before some of the rats get in the pendulum’s range and provide a grotesque foreshadowing of failure, and some of their fellows go to feast, distracting them from the cords and slowing his escape and not before he suffers a large wound across his chest. Yes, Poe writes that he was cut by the pendulum, but it’s a blink and you’ll miss it passing line. I would go into far more detail. Describe the pain that shot through his whole body as it sliced his skin open. The pain he felt as the metal scraped against his bones in his sternum. How he looked down for a split second and saw the gore. Then the pendulum comes down in its full violence on several other prisoners. Because of the arch of a pendulum’s swing, those on the ends are less hurt than those in the center, who are all either catastrophically dead or critically wounded depending on where they were in the line in the pendulum’s path. This could also open the door to write some more grotesque imagery. The streams of blood that the pendulum threw around as it went. The chilling and horrific screams of pain. People who were whole moments ago now being in two pieces. Then the walls start to close in, as they do, and those in the line who are still alive are being forced into the pit and being scalded by the heated iron walls all the while. Eventually there is no space for them and they are forced into the pit still helplessly strapped onto their tables, bleeding from the pendulum’s blade, burned from the heated walls, and now falling down, down, down, sending up screams of mortal terror and agony as they fall. Their screams fade away and now the protagonist is in this situation. Pretty soon, he has no choice but to jump in. He tries to hold on to the top of the pit, but when the walls reach him, his fingers are burned. Then, the story could either end as it does (though now the protagonist has burn scars on his hands and a large scar across his chest from where the pendulum was able to reach before he escaped from thenceforth) just without General Lasalle, or with the protagonist falling down to a similar demise. Or perhaps now the protagonist is in the pit having managed to survive the fall (but not without great harm to him) by landing on a stack of bodies, and waiting for his rescue that will never come. As he waits, he’s surrounded by bodies, and rats eating their way through the dead around him, and running out of meat, but not ashamed to eat meat off of a living person. This would fix the problem of nothing of consequence happening, and the anticlimactic ending. But, this is all just my opinion, and my urge to be a horror author being pampered. As it stands, I still think this is one of Poe’s weakest stories, but it’s not bad, I guess. And the animation is quite good. It even helped me work out in my mind some of the obscure details that I didn’t get upon my first reading.

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