The Pit and the Pendulum

This ranks as the best Corman-Poe adaptation that I have yet seen. Spanish Inquisition, torture, adulertery, people buried alive, scheming women -- yep, it's Edgar Allen Poe and Roger Corman gives it classy drive-in touch making it unusually enjoyable. Vincent Price gives a strong performance in a role that is more victim than victimizer. There are ever a couple of fairly effective suspense sequences.