A fairly typical but enjoyable horror flick.
A fairly typical horror flick, from 1989. The story is very basic, full of holes and quite predictable - but in spite of this, it is an enjoyable film if, like me, you have a soft spot for this sort of thing.The film is set in an asylum, and the initial scenes reveal that a doctor is conducting experiments on patients in a hidden basement, dumping the bodies in a pit (the "dead pit" of the title). A colleague stumbles upon this and kills him, afterwards sealing up the hidden door (which at this point has an eery green glow revealing it as a door) to keep the whole sorry affair a dark secret.The main bulk of the film is set some 20 years later, after a new inmate arrives, seemingly suffering from amnesia, but claiming her memory was "taken", describing an operation which has uncanny similarities to the experiments...The DVD is sadly lacking in any notable extras.
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