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Home Reviews Features Contests Editorials Top 10 Lists Retrospectives B-Sides Inside Horror Tip of the Scalpel Cold Spots Last Toys on the Left Hard-Boiled Horror Tales Motion Picture Purgatory Forums Podcasts Video EVILShop Close Home Pit & Pendulum Blog Edgar Allan Poe Marc Lougee Pit and the Pendulum Ray Harryhausen Stop Motion Tweet By Jon Condit March 31st, 2007 As promised we have more info for you on the stop-motion animated adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum, which was produced by master animator Ray Harryhausen and directed by "Celebrity Death Match" alum Marc Lougee. Marc just launched a new blog site that he will use to keep fans informed as to what the status is with the short, which as we reported here is finally getting it’s first few festival dates across North America. Right now there’s a rather lengthy interview with him up from Pegasus News discussing his history and how he got involved with Mr. Harryhausen in the first place. Good stuff! For more on The Pit and the Pendulum short be sure to visit its official site where you can see the very cool teaser trailer. Tomorrow is the awards ceremony at AFI Dallas, where the film is playing as we speak, so here’s hoping for some good news! - Johnny Butane Got news? Click here to submit it! Want free stuff? Bring some new blood to our forums! Recent Headlines TrustNordisk Feels the Frost Cabin in the Woods Gets a Quad The UK Will Learn A Horrible Way to Die this March Joe Lynch's Everly Gets Picked Up Internationally Celluloid Nightmares Heads to a Dead Mine Former True Blood Vamp Heading to NBC's Grimm Doctor Gash's Tip of the Scalpel: George A. Romero The Hog: A Return to Fear Reveals a Teaser to Scream For Christophe Gans' Beauty and the Beast Finds its Leads Hitchcock's Rebecca Being Remade <!-- 300x250 ros --> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-2421632652865552"; /* MediumRectangle */ google_ad_slot = "7522132661"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <!-- END AD TAG --> NEXT STORY Rave for Bump & Rage Comics Fangoria Comics has been one of those entities sitting out there on the sidelines for months now with little being said about it other than a few press releases announcing new titles that I, for one, slavered over as soon as I heard about. Finally both Bump and Beneath the Valley of The Rage are getting some big-time attention from the mass market as it was featured in the latest issue of Preveiews. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Aliens: Colonial Marines American Horror Story Anarchy Reigns Battleship Bedlam Breaking Dawn Cabin in the Woods Chillerama Chronicle Clash of the Titans 2 Dark Shadows Dark Souls Dead Rising 2 Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark Final Destination 5 Hostel Part III Dexter Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengance Gone Grimm Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters House Of The Dead: Overkill Jurassic Park: The Game Neverdead Once Upon A Time Paranormal Activity 3 Piranha 3DD Prometheus Prototype 2 Rise of Nightmares Rise of the Planet of the Apes Saint Nick Silent Hill Stephen King’s Bag of Bones Sundance 2012 Supernatural Terra Nova The Darkest Hour The Devil Inside The Divide The Grey The Hunger Games The Innkeepers The Raven The River The Secret Circle The Vampire Diaries The Walking Dead The Wolf Gift The Woman In Black Tucker And Dale Vs Evil	<!-- 300x250 ros --> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-2421632652865552"; /* MediumRectangle / google_ad_slot = "7522132661"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 250; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script> <!-- END AD TAG --> User login Username: Password: * Create new account Request new password You might also like: Recent Reviews Gotham City Imposters (Video Game) End Night (Video Game) Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) Resident Evil Revelations (Video Game) Darkness II, The (Video Game) Pink Sock (Short, 2011) What Fears Become: An Anthology from The Horror Zine (Book) Sherlock Holmes: The Breath of God (Book) Super Shark (2011) Chronicle (2012) Recent comments Or parents could save their 10 sec ago Brilliant! bring it on :) 57 min 12 sec ago this could be Sooper cool! 1 hour 4 min ago Some really good stuff here. 1 hour 9 min ago A-fucking Men! LOL ;) 1 hour 10 min ago I do love George and don't 1 hour 29 min ago Of all the projects Gans has 3 hours 37 min ago For all those horror fans who 14 hours 44 min ago My best guess is the Waverly 16 hours 50 min ago Just this moment finished 18 hours 21 min ago