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* TortureTechnician: Mendoza, who is so gifted at torture and extracting confessions from heretics, that Torquemada recued from death by crucifixion to serve as his personal torturer. He also flagellates Torquemada whenever the Inquisitor is troubled by wicked thoughts.
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* TortureTechnician: Mendoza, who is so gifted at torture and extracting confessions from heretics, that Torquemada recued rescued from death by crucifixion to serve as his personal torturer. He also flagellates Torquemada whenever the Inquisitor is troubled by wicked thoughts.
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* TongueTrauma: Torquemada cuts out maria's tongue with a pair of shears so she can tell no one of his impotence.
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* TongueTrauma: Torquemada cuts out maria's Maria's tongue with a pair of shears so she can tell no one of his impotence.
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* HidingBehindReligion: UsefulNotes/TomasDeTorquemada runs [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishInquisition a horrific regime in Spain]] where countless people are tortured and executed in show trials, all to keep up a weak show of false piety to mask his sadism.
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The story is set in Spain in 1492: the height of the Spanish Inquisition. Maria, the kindhearted young wife of baker Antonio, cries out in horror when a young boy is publicly flogged as his mother is being burnt at the the stake. The Grand Inquisitor Torquemada (Creator/LanceHenriksen) has her arrested as a witch. Antonio attempts to rescue her from the dungeons but is captured. Torquemada finds himself enchanted by Maria's beauty but denies it and has her and Antonio tortured in an attempt to prove that Maria has used spells to bewitch him. With the help of her cellmate Esmeralda, a self-confessed witch, Maria must find the strength to escape and rescue Antonio from Torquemada's newest punishment: a razor-sharp PendulumOfDeath and spike-lined pit.
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The story is set in Spain in 1492: the height of the Spanish Inquisition.UsefulNotes/SpanishInquisition. Maria, the kindhearted young wife of baker Antonio, cries out in horror when a young boy is publicly flogged as his mother is being burnt at the the stake. The Grand Inquisitor Torquemada UsefulNotes/TomasDeTorquemada (Creator/LanceHenriksen) has her arrested as a witch. Antonio attempts to rescue her from the dungeons but is captured. Torquemada finds himself enchanted by Maria's beauty but denies it and has her and Antonio tortured in an attempt to prove that Maria has used spells to bewitch him. With the help of her cellmate Esmeralda, a self-confessed witch, Maria must find the strength to escape and rescue Antonio from Torquemada's newest punishment: a razor-sharp PendulumOfDeath and spike-lined pit.
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See also the [[Film/ThePitAndThePendulum 1961 version]] by Creator/RogerCorman.
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The story is set in Spain in 1492: the height of the Spanish Inquisition. Maria, the kindhearted young wife of baker Antonio, cries out in horror when a young boy is publicly flogged as his mother is being burnt at the the stake. The Grand Inquisitor Torquemada (Creator/LanceHenriksen) has her arrested as a witch. As Antonio attempts to rescue her from the dungeons, but is captured. Torquemada finds himself enchanted by Maria's beauty, but denies it, and has her and Antonio tortured in an attempt to prove that Maria has used spells to bewitch him. With the help of her cellmate Esmeralda, a self-confessed witch, Maria must the strength to escape and rescue Antonio from Torquemada's newest punishment: a razor-sharp PendulumOfDeath and spike-lined pit.
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The story is set in Spain in 1492: the height of the Spanish Inquisition. Maria, the kindhearted young wife of baker Antonio, cries out in horror when a young boy is publicly flogged as his mother is being burnt at the the stake. The Grand Inquisitor Torquemada (Creator/LanceHenriksen) has her arrested as a witch. As Antonio attempts to rescue her from the dungeons, dungeons but is captured. Torquemada finds himself enchanted by Maria's beauty, beauty but denies it, it and has her and Antonio tortured in an attempt to prove that Maria has used spells to bewitch him. With the help of her cellmate Esmeralda, a self-confessed witch, Maria must find the strength to escape and rescue Antonio from Torquemada's newest punishment: a razor-sharp PendulumOfDeath and spike-lined pit.
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* PunchClockVillain: Francisco and Dr. Huesos, who are torturing people simply because it is their job (unlike Mendoza to whom it is a holy calling, and Gomez who is a sadist). When Esmeralda offers to confess to whatever they want, Francisco patiently explains that they cannot just accept her confession, because she might be confessing just to avoid being tortures. Only confessions obtained under torture are considered legitimate evidence of heresy.
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* PunchClockVillain: Francisco and Dr. Huesos, who are torturing people simply because it is their job (unlike Mendoza to whom it is a holy calling, and Gomez who is a sadist). When Esmeralda offers to confess to whatever they want, Francisco patiently explains that they cannot just accept her confession, because she might be confessing just to avoid being tortures.tortured. Only confessions obtained under torture are considered legitimate evidence of heresy.
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* HeelFaceTurn: On hearing Torquemada state that Maria was innocent, TortureTechnician Mendoza realizes that the 100s he has tortured on Torquemada's command were also innocent, just as he was innocent. He attacks Torquemada to prevent him from killing Antonio, and although he is quickly struck down by Torquemada, the distraction he provides gives Antonio the opportunity to free himself.
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* HeelFaceTurn: On hearing Torquemada state that Maria was innocent, TortureTechnician Mendoza realizes that the 100s hundreds of others he has tortured on Torquemada's command were also innocent, just as he was innocent. He attacks Torquemada to prevent him from killing Antonio, and although he is quickly struck down by Torquemada, the distraction he provides gives Antonio the opportunity to free himself.
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The story is set in Spain in 1492: the height of the Spanish Inquisition. Maria, the kindhearted young wife of baker Antonio, cries out in horror when a young boy is publicly flogged as his mother is being burnt at the the stake. The Grand Inquisitor Torquemada (Creator/LanceHenriksen) has her arrested as a witch. As Antonio attempts to rescue her from the dungeons, but is captured. Torquemada finds himself enchanted by Maria's beauty, but denies it, and has her and Antonio tortured in an attempt to prove that Maria has used spells to bewitch him. With the help of her cellmate Esmeralda, a self-confessed witch, Maria must the strength to escap and rescue Antonio from Torquemada's newest punishment: a razor-sharp PendulumOfDeath and spike-lined pit.
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The story is set in Spain in 1492: the height of the Spanish Inquisition. Maria, the kindhearted young wife of baker Antonio, cries out in horror when a young boy is publicly flogged as his mother is being burnt at the the stake. The Grand Inquisitor Torquemada (Creator/LanceHenriksen) has her arrested as a witch. As Antonio attempts to rescue her from the dungeons, but is captured. Torquemada finds himself enchanted by Maria's beauty, but denies it, and has her and Antonio tortured in an attempt to prove that Maria has used spells to bewitch him. With the help of her cellmate Esmeralda, a self-confessed witch, Maria must the strength to escap escape and rescue Antonio from Torquemada's newest punishment: a razor-sharp PendulumOfDeath and spike-lined pit.
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* BuildingOfAdventure: Apart from an early scene in Antonio's bakery, the entire film takes within the castle of Toledo.
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* BuildingOfAdventure: Apart from an early scene in Antonio's bakery, bakery and the site of the auto-da-fe, the entire film takes within the castle of Toledo.
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* CoincidentalDodge: Torquemada is lying atop Maria on his bed, strangling her. In his fury, he sits upright, yanking her with him. As he does so the thread holding the sword dangling above the bed (ItMakesSenseInContext) snaps and the sword plunges down on to the bed, stabbing through where they were lying a second ago. Torquemada takes this as a sign from God.
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* CoincidentalDodge: Torquemada is lying atop Maria on his bed, strangling her. In his fury, he sits upright, yanking her with him. As he does so so, the thread holding the a sword he keeps dangling above the his bed (ItMakesSenseInContext) [[note]] He states this is so that if he has displeased God that He may strike him down. [[/note]] snaps and the sword plunges down on to the bed, stabbing through where they were lying a second ago. Torquemada takes this as a sign from God.
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* FiveFingerDiscount: Street urchins filch Antonio's loaves from his basket at the market.
* ForceFeeding: Gomez and Mendoza lock Esemeralda in the stocks, place a funnel in her mouth, and pour water into it until she chokes in a primitive form of waterboarding.
* ForceFeeding: Gomez and Mendoza lock Esemeralda in the stocks, place a funnel in her mouth, and pour water into it until she chokes in a primitive form of waterboarding.
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* FiveFingerDiscount: Street urchins filch Antonio's loaves from his basket at the market.
market, causing him and Maria to become swept up by the crowd headed for the auto-da-fe.
* ForceFeeding: Gomez and Mendoza lock Esemeralda in the stocks, place a funnel in her mouth, andpour force her to drink large amounts of water into it [[note]] [[ShownTheirWork An actual form of torture used by the Inquisition]] [[/note]] until she chokes in a primitive form of waterboarding.nearly drowns.
* ForceFeeding: Gomez and Mendoza lock Esemeralda in the stocks, place a funnel in her mouth, and
* HumanResources: During the opening scene, after having a dead man’s skeleton flogged, Torqumada has his bones ground to powder in a massive mortar and pestle and poured into a hourglass which keeps at his desk.
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* IronMaiden: During his escape from the dungeon, Antonio shoves a guard into an iron maiden and kicks the door closed.
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* IronMaiden: During his escape from the dungeon, Antonio shoves a guard into an iron maiden and kicks the door closed. At another point, during the Cardinal’s visit, among other implements shown a prisoner is seen being removed from one such device.
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* RumpRoast: The Inquisition attempts to torture Antonio by strapping him to a metal chair and lighting a fire under it. Antonio resists the torture and even laughs at how feeble it is.[[note]]Possibly {{Justified}} as Antonio is a baker and so is used to being in cramped, hot spaces.[[/note]] Assuming there is something wrong with the chair, Gomez unstraps to Antonio to examine it. Antonio immediately makes a break for freedom, shoving the captain of the guards into the char as he does so. The captain immediately leaps to his feet; clutching his buttocks and yelping in pain.
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* RumpRoast: The Inquisition attempts to torture Antonio by strapping him to a metal chair and lighting a fire under it. Antonio resists the torture and even laughs at how feeble it is.[[note]]Possibly {{Justified}} as Antonio is a baker and so is used to being in cramped, hot spaces.[[/note]] Assuming there is something wrong with the chair, Gomez unstraps to Antonio to examine it. Antonio immediately makes a break for freedom, shoving the captain of the guards into the char chair as he does so. The captain immediately leaps to his feet; clutching his buttocks and yelping in pain.
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* ShamefulStrip: Torquemada has Maria stripped in front of him and his cronies as part of her interrogation by the Inquisition.
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* ShamefulStrip: Torquemada has Maria stripped in front of him and his cronies as part of her interrogation by the Inquisition. Inquisition, in search of a “Witch’s Mark”.
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* StockPunishment: Esmeralda is locked in a pillory horizontally, so her torturers can [[ForceFeeding pour water down her throat]] till she chokes.
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* YourHeadASplode: When being [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]], Esmeralda's head explodes because she is holding a mouthful of gunpowder.
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* YourHeadASplode: When being [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]], Esmeralda's head (and whole body) explodes because she is holding a mouthful had been swallowing mouthfuls of gunpowder.
gunpowder from a conveniently opened cask.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: When Maria resists his ScarpiaUltimatum, Torquemada beats her and [[TongueTrauma cuts out her tongue], before continuing his activities, attempting to subject her husband to the worst death he can think of with the eponymous pit and pendulum.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: When Maria resists his ScarpiaUltimatum, Torquemada beats her and [[TongueTrauma cuts out her tongue], tongue]], before continuing his activities, attempting to subject her husband to the worst death he can think of with the eponymous pit and pendulum.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: When Maria resists his ScarpiaUltimatum, Torquemada beats her and [[TongueTrauma cuts out her tongue], before continuing his activities, attempting to subject her husband to the worst death he can think of with the eponymous pit and pendulum.
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* ScarpiaUltimatum: When Torquemada lusts after Maria, he has her arrested and tortured before imprisoning her husband and attempting to extort sex from her in exchange for his life.
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* BallisticBone: The executioner laughs at Esmeralda as he is preparing to [[BurnTheWitch burn her at the stake]] and she curses him: telling him that he will die at the same moment she does. However, when he lights the pyre, Esmeralda explodes (ItMakesSenseInContext) and he dies: speared through the heart by a fragment of her bone hurled out by the explosion.
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* BuriedAlive: Torquemada has the papal envoy walled up alive in the cellar (in a scene from [[Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado a completely different Poe story]]). Later, Torquemada believes maria is dead and seals her up inside a tomb.
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* BuriedAlive: Torquemada has the papal envoy walled up alive in the cellar (in a scene from [[Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado a completely different Poe story]]). Later, Torquemada believes maria Maria is dead and seals her up inside a tomb.
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* PortraitPeephole: Torquemada has peephole concealed behind a stained glass window that allows him to secretly watch his torturers at work.
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''The Pit and the Pendulum'' is a 1991 American horror film based on [[Literature/ThePitAndThePendulum the 1842 short story]] by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe. The plot also incorporates elements from Poe's' "Literature/TheCaskOfAmontilado". The film was released on DVD in the United States as ''The Inquisitor''.
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''The Pit and the Pendulum'' is a 1991 American horror film based on [[Literature/ThePitAndThePendulum the 1842 short story]] by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe. The plot also incorporates elements from Poe's' "Literature/TheCaskOfAmontilado"."Literature/TheCaskOfAmontillado". The film was released on DVD in the United States as ''The Inquisitor''.
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* PortraitPeephole: Torquemada has peephole concealed behind a stained glass window that allows him to secretly watch his torturers at work.
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''The Pit and the Pendulum'' is a 1991 American horror film based on [[Literature/ThePitAndThePendulum the 1842 short story]] by Creator/EdgarAllanPoe. It The plot also incorporates elements from Poe's' "Literature/TheCaskOfAmontilado". The film was released on DVD in the United States as ''The Inquisitor''.
The story is set in Spain in 1492: the height of the Spanish Inquisition. Maria, the kindhearted young wife of baker Antonio, cries out in horror when a young boy is publicly flogged as his mother is being burnt at the the stake. The Grand Inquisitor Torquemada (Creator/LanceHenriksen) has her arrested as a witch. As Antonio attempts to rescue her from the dungeons, but is captured. Torquemada finds himself enchanted by Maria's beauty, but denies it, and has her and Antonio tortured in an attempt to prove that Maria has used spells to bewitch him. With the help of her cellmate Esmeralda, a self-confessed witch, Maria must the strength to escap and rescue Antonio from Torquemada's newest punishment: a razor-sharp PendulumOfDeath and spike-lined pit.
The story is set in Spain in 1492: the height of the Spanish Inquisition. Maria, the kindhearted young wife of baker Antonio, cries out in horror when a young boy is publicly flogged as his mother is being burnt at the the stake. The Grand Inquisitor Torquemada (Creator/LanceHenriksen) has her arrested as a witch. As Antonio attempts to rescue her from the dungeons, but is captured. Torquemada finds himself enchanted by Maria's beauty, but denies it, and has her and Antonio tortured in an attempt to prove that Maria has used spells to bewitch him. With the help of her cellmate Esmeralda, a self-confessed witch, Maria must the strength to escap and rescue Antonio from Torquemada's newest punishment: a razor-sharp PendulumOfDeath and spike-lined pit.
