An ambitious experiment in narrative cinema largely goes the distance in first-time writer-director Sohn Young-sung’s “The Pit and the Pendulum,” a Chinese-box-style collection of stories ...

Independent acquisitions were not enough, however, and soon AIP went into the business of producing, churning out more than 200 films, including “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “The House of ...

Not surprisingly, the most prolific filmmaker to come away from Arkoff”s studio was Roger Corman, himself an exploitation master that has directed some of cinemas most infamous films, including his ...