The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

Vincent Price: Nicholas Medina, Sebastian Medina

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• Don Nicholas Medina : I will tell you where you are. You are about to enter hell, Bartholomew. Hell! The Netherworld. The infernal region. The abode of the damned. The place of torment. Pandemonium. "Abbadon, "Tophet", "Gehenna". "Naraka", the pit! And the pendulum.

• Don Nicholas Medina : You will die in agony. Die!

• Don Nicholas Medina : The atmosphere is heavy in here.

  [opens the curtains in Elizabeth's room] 

  Francis : Why have you brought me here?

  Don Nicholas Medina : It is her room, sir. I've had it kept exactly as she left it.

• Don Nicholas Medina : Will you stay the night with us?

  Francis : The night - and more, sir. Until I know exactly what has happened here.

• Don Nicholas Medina : I should never have brought her here. She was too sensitive, too aware.

  Francis : Aware of what?

  Don Nicholas Medina : The malignant atmosphere of this castle. It destroyed her.

  Francis : My sister was a strong and willful woman - not subject to the influence of atmospheres.

  Don Nicholas Medina : You have been here only a matter of hours, Mr. Barnard. You cannot know what it is to live here, month upon month, year after year, breathing this infernal air, absorbing the miasma of barbarity which permeates these walls.

• Don Nicholas Medina : The razor edge of destiny. That's the condition of man. Bound on an island from which he can never hope to escape - surrounded by the waiting pit of hell. Subject to the inexorable pendulum of fate - which must destroy him finally.

• Don Nicholas Medina : I worshiped your sister. I worship her still. Without her, life is meaningless. She was that substance of loveliness.

  [displays a painting of Elizabeth] 

  Don Nicholas Medina : I tried to capture it, but it was the way she walked and moved - her smile, her voice. She sang like an angel. And she could play the harpsichord as no other woman I've ever known could play.

• Don Nicholas Medina : Was he not my father? Am I not the spawn of his - his depraved blood?

  Catherine : His depravity is not yours, Nicholas. Why scourge yourself because of it?

• Don Nicholas Medina : You have every right to be provoked.

• Don Nicholas Medina : Could I have kept that ring without knowing it? Play the harpsichord without knowing it? Destroyed Elizabeth's room all without knowing it? My inner mind - creating evidence of Elizabeth's vengeful return because that mind knows. But I don't know! I will find out.

• Don Nicholas Medina : True. True. True. True. True!

  Catherine : Nicolas.

  Don Nicholas Medina : True!

  Catherine : Nicolas!

  Don Nicholas Medina : True!

  Catherine : No, Nicolas!

  Don Nicholas Medina : True!

• Doctor Leon : I beg of you leave with me.

  Don Nicholas Medina : I can never leave. I must accept whatever vengeance Elizabeth chooses to inflict upon me.

• Don Nicholas Medina : Elizabeth? Where are you? Elizabeth? Where are you?

• Don Nicholas Medina : Harlot! You will die in agony! Die!