“… Ray (Harryhausen) had always intended to get around to doing the Edgar Allan Poe
stories - and my god this looks awesome; haunting, frightening and creepy.”
-Harry Knowles, Ain’t It Cool.com

“The Pit and the Pendulum” is one of the finest examples of gothic claymation I’ve
seen since “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” If anything Lougee’s film proves that
you can still tell compelling stories with the advent of pure stop-motion, and
goodness, is he a storyteller worth watching for. Not to mention it is one of the
finest art house animated films since “Blood Tea and Red String.”
- Cinema Crazed.com

“The great Ray Harryhausen, the dean of special-effects animators,
executive-produced Marc Lougee's disturbing stop-motion adaptation of the classic
Poe tale "The Pit and the Pendulum," and it's easy to see why: Lougee's characters
move with the same unnerving combination of naturalism and otherworldliness that
Harryhausen's legendary creations (think Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the
Titans) possessed. Poe's elliptical story has provided fodder for many elaborate
feature-film retellings, but Lougee's ruthlessly efficient take is short and to the
point, packing in a whole lot of tension into seven slim minutes.”
-Bilge Ebiri, New Yorker Magazine

“With Ray Harryhausen on board as an executive producer and the source material
lifted from Poe's famous short story you should know basically what you're getting.
The only question is will it be good? The answer is a resounding yes. Clocking in at
only seven minutes the story has been stripped to its bones but it's an effective,
atmospheric piece of work driven by the realistic animation, exaggerated and highly
detailed design work and the master stroke of casting his model's face from
skin-like silicone, rather than the typical plasticine to give that extra bit of Poe
pallor. Very nice.”
-Twitch Film

“… Ray (Harryhausen) had always intended to get around to doing the Edgar Allan Poe
stories - and my god this looks awesome; haunting, frightening and creepy.”
-Harry Knowles, Ain’t It Cool.com

“The Pit and the Pendulum” is one of the finest examples of gothic claymation I’ve
seen since “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” If anything Lougee’s film proves that
you can still tell compelling stories with the advent of pure stop-motion, and
goodness, is he a storyteller worth watching for. Not to mention it is one of the
finest art house animated films since “Blood Tea and Red String.”
- Cinema Crazed.com

“The great Ray Harryhausen, the dean of special-effects animators,
executive-produced Marc Lougee's disturbing stop-motion adaptation of the classic
Poe tale "The Pit and the Pendulum," and it's easy to see why: Lougee's characters
move with the same unnerving combination of naturalism and otherworldliness that
Harryhausen's legendary creations (think Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the
Titans) possessed. Poe's elliptical story has provided fodder for many elaborate
feature-film retellings, but Lougee's ruthlessly efficient take is short and to the
point, packing in a whole lot of tension into seven slim minutes.”
-Bilge Ebiri, New Yorker Magazine

“With Ray Harryhausen on board as an executive producer and the source material
lifted from Poe's famous short story you should know basically what you're getting.
The only question is will it be good? The answer is a resounding yes. Clocking in at
only seven minutes the story has been stripped to its bones but it's an effective,
atmospheric piece of work driven by the realistic animation, exaggerated and highly
detailed design work and the master stroke of casting his model's face from
skin-like silicone, rather than the typical plasticine to give that extra bit of Poe
pallor. Very nice.”
-Twitch Film

The Pit and the Pendulum is an Official Selection in the 2007 AFI Dallas INternational Film Festival...chosen as one of NINE short films in the animation competition; this should be an interesting show!

Screenings are March 29th, Thursday, at 5:15 pm, and Saturday, <arch 31st. at 4:30 pm. More info on the venues, tix, etc van be found at www.AFIDALLAS.com

Director marc Lougee will be present during the festival- send a note, and let's chat! Marc will have posters, and special teaser discs for those in attendance at the screenings...see you there!