The horror, oh the horror this movie put me through...
THE PIT is one seriously messed up movie. Plain wrong, even, and it inflicted great horror on me, in a most peculiar way. For one reason, basically: The kid. That incredibly annoying, 12-year-old kid. I never ever loathed a child-actor so much in any film. His ugly face. His atrocious hair-do. His big stupid nose. His irritating voice. All his unfortunate facial characteristics fueled by the intolerable things he says and the way he stood there in every scene, acting his way horrendously throughout the whole movie... A friend of mine messed me up quite severely with having me watch this film. It evoked feelings deep inside me I didn't know were there. I hated that kid. I wanted to reach into my TV-set and hit him repeatedly. Frankly put: I wanted him to die, badly. So, can you imagine my joy when I witnessed what finally happened to him at the end.
During the first half of this film, I was convinced I'd be flunking it. I just couldn't get over that little brat. But... my friend was right by telling me I had to see this film, as it's simply an undefinable, demented piece of work. It really is a mess, as the script shows no coherence whatsoever, incorporating so many different elements that you never have any idea where this all is going to lead to. We have: psycho-trite (messed-up kid with imaginary friends), sleaze (all nudity in this film caries seriously disturbing undertones), creature features (trolls in the woods!?!?), demented humor (pulling cows and chasing chickens?), a stuffed toy bear (It moved! Withouth the kid being around even! It frickin' moved, I tell ya!) a warped variety of victims (from kids to wheelchair-bound blind grannies!), ghosts (I'll say that again: Ghosts?) of victims coming back from beyond, a stupid vigilante mob (they honestly believed it was a pack of wild dogs they shot?) and... to top it off: a wonderful, highly memorable 'freeze-frame shock ending' at the end (which I just felt coming during that final scene, and was so hoping for).
THE PIT indeed is so "ga-ga", it belongs up there with William Girdler's THE MANITOU and Ulli Lommel's THE BOOGEYMAN. I hope, for his sake, director Lew Lehman checked himself into rehab after this film, because that must have been some serious dope he was on while making it.
THE PIT is one seriously messed up movie. Plain wrong, even, and it inflicted great horror on me, in a most peculiar way. For one reason, basically: The kid. That incredibly annoying, 12-year-old kid. I never ever loathed a child-actor so much in any film. His ugly face. His atrocious hair-do. His big stupid nose. His irritating voice. All his unfortunate facial characteristics fueled by the intolerable things he says and the way he stood there in every scene, acting his way horrendously throughout the whole movie... A friend of mine messed me up quite severely with having me watch this film. It evoked feelings deep inside me I didn't know were there. I hated that kid. I wanted to reach into my TV-set and hit him repeatedly. Frankly put: I wanted him to die, badly. So, can you imagine my joy when I witnessed what finally happened to him at the end.
During the first half of this film, I was convinced I'd be flunking it. I just couldn't get over that little brat. But... my friend was right by telling me I had to see this film, as it's simply an undefinable, demented piece of work. It really is a mess, as the script shows no coherence whatsoever, incorporating so many different elements that you never have any idea where this all is going to lead to. We have: psycho-trite (messed-up kid with imaginary friends), sleaze (all nudity in this film caries seriously disturbing undertones), creature features (trolls in the woods!?!?), demented humor (pulling cows and chasing chickens?), a stuffed toy bear (It moved! Withouth the kid being around even! It frickin' moved, I tell ya!) a warped variety of victims (from kids to wheelchair-bound blind grannies!), ghosts (I'll say that again: Ghosts?) of victims coming back from beyond, a stupid vigilante mob (they honestly believed it was a pack of wild dogs they shot?) and... to top it off: a wonderful, highly memorable 'freeze-frame shock ending' at the end (which I just felt coming during that final scene, and was so hoping for).
THE PIT indeed is so "ga-ga", it belongs up there with William Girdler's THE MANITOU and Ulli Lommel's THE BOOGEYMAN. I hope, for his sake, director Lew Lehman checked himself into rehab after this film, because that must have been some serious dope he was on while making it.