La Chambre des tortures (The Pit and the Pendulum) est un film fantastique américain de Roger Corman, sorti en 1961.
Elle s'inspire d'une nouvelle d'Edgar Allan Poe, Le Puits et le Pendule.
Synopsis:
En Espagne, vers 1547. Afin d'éclaircir les mystères qui entourent la mort de sa sœur Elizabeth, Francis Barnard se rend au château où elle vivait en compagnie de son mari Nicholas.
Nicholas Medina, fils d'un redoutable inquisiteur espagnol, sombre lentement dans la folie, persuadé d'avoir enterré vivante sa femme...
Détails : Le comte Don Nicholas Medina croit que son épouse Elizabeth a été enterrée vivante tout comme le fut sa mère, Isabella, coupable d'adultère. Avec Francis, le frère de celle-ci et le docteur Léon, ils ouvrent le cercueil, constatant effectivement que ce fut le cas. À partir de cet instant, le fantôme d'Elizabeth ne cesse de se manifester. En réalité, elle n'est pas morte ! Trompant son mari avec le docteur, elle et ce dernier ont décidé de monter une machination afin de le rendre fou et de récupérer ainsi ses biens. Le couple réussit leur coup mais l'âme du père de Nicholas - Sébastian, horrible inquisiteur -, va posséder son fils qui tuera Léon et enfermera Elizabeth dans une cage de fer. Son frère, décontenancé par la situation, est ensuite attaché sur une table de tortures au-dessus de laquelle un lourd pendule tranchant descend au fur et à mesure du bon vouloir du bourreau. C'est la sœur de Nicholas, Catherine, qui avec l'aide d'un domestique, sauve Francis et précipite "Nicholas-Sébastian" dans la même fosse que Léon. Elizabeth, elle, deviendra victime de son propre piège, c'est-à-dire mourir enfermée vivante dans sa cage...
Elle s'inspire d'une nouvelle d'Edgar Allan Poe, Le Puits et le Pendule.
Synopsis:
En Espagne, vers 1547. Afin d'éclaircir les mystères qui entourent la mort de sa sœur Elizabeth, Francis Barnard se rend au château où elle vivait en compagnie de son mari Nicholas.
Nicholas Medina, fils d'un redoutable inquisiteur espagnol, sombre lentement dans la folie, persuadé d'avoir enterré vivante sa femme...
Détails : Le comte Don Nicholas Medina croit que son épouse Elizabeth a été enterrée vivante tout comme le fut sa mère, Isabella, coupable d'adultère. Avec Francis, le frère de celle-ci et le docteur Léon, ils ouvrent le cercueil, constatant effectivement que ce fut le cas. À partir de cet instant, le fantôme d'Elizabeth ne cesse de se manifester. En réalité, elle n'est pas morte ! Trompant son mari avec le docteur, elle et ce dernier ont décidé de monter une machination afin de le rendre fou et de récupérer ainsi ses biens. Le couple réussit leur coup mais l'âme du père de Nicholas - Sébastian, horrible inquisiteur -, va posséder son fils qui tuera Léon et enfermera Elizabeth dans une cage de fer. Son frère, décontenancé par la situation, est ensuite attaché sur une table de tortures au-dessus de laquelle un lourd pendule tranchant descend au fur et à mesure du bon vouloir du bourreau. C'est la sœur de Nicholas, Catherine, qui avec l'aide d'un domestique, sauve Francis et précipite "Nicholas-Sébastian" dans la même fosse que Léon. Elizabeth, elle, deviendra victime de son propre piège, c'est-à-dire mourir enfermée vivante dans sa cage...
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00:08:56 May we go now Mr. Barnett, this is very painful for my brother.
00:09:00 And for me, as well.
00:09:04 This form of burial is a family custom Mr. Barnett.
00:09:10 Will you stay the night with us?
00:09:14 The night, and more sir, until I know exactly what has happened here.
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00:09:58 Thank you.
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00:10:10 (Knock on door)
00:10:11 Yes?
00:10:17 I trust that you will be comfortable here.
00:10:20 Is this you?
00:10:24 No.
00:10:26 No, that is my father, Sebastian Medina.
00:10:29 Sebastian Medina, yes.
00:10:32 The resemblance is remarkable.
00:10:34 Yes.
00:10:37 My brother is my uncle, Bartholomew.
00:10:41 Mr. Barnett, I am aware, painfully aware of your distrust regarding Elizabeth's death.
00:10:48 Her death was, and is, anguish to me.
00:10:53 I beg of you, do not add to it.
00:10:55 I'm sorry Don Medina, but your word is not enough.
00:10:59 Too many things need fuller explanation, before I can be satisfied that what you say is true.
00:11:06 Fuller explanation?
00:11:09 Yes.
00:11:12 Come with me.
00:11:16 Please come.
00:11:25 The atmosphere is heavy in here.
00:11:31 (Sigh)
00:11:33 Why have you brought me here?
00:11:35 It is her room, sir.
00:11:37 I have had it kept exactly as she left it.
00:11:45 Look around you, sir.
00:11:48 This room was furnished and arranged with dedicated love.
00:11:53 Every article of furniture, every decorative detail is the work of a master craftsman of Italy or Spain or France.
00:12:01 Indeed, every country in the civilized world is represented here.
00:12:05 It is a unique room.
00:12:10 I did it all for her.
00:12:13 I wanted her to have something that...
00:12:22 Maria.
00:12:23 I beg your pardon, sir.
00:12:25 I was just cleaning up.
00:12:27 Yes, yes, of course.
00:12:30 You may go now.
00:12:35 Is this all you meant to tell me?
00:12:38 You are an unyielding man, Mr. Barnet.
00:12:41 I am forced to be, sir.
00:12:43 God is my witness. I worship your sister. I worship her still.
00:12:47 Without her, life is meaningless.
00:12:51 She was the very substance of loveliness.
00:12:58 I tried to capture it.
00:13:01 But it was the way she walked and moved.
00:13:04 Her smile, her voice.
00:13:07 She sang like an angel.
00:13:11 She could play the harpsichord as no other woman I have ever known could play it.
00:13:17 Every night after we had dined, she would play for me.
00:13:26 Please forgive me.
00:13:29 I had not intended to so display myself.
00:13:33 I only wanted to convince you.
00:13:36 Now pray, I beg you, leave me for a while.
00:13:43 Please go.
00:13:46 Do you live in London, Mr. Barnet?
00:14:04 Yes, and you?
00:14:07 In Barcelona, with an aunt.
00:14:09 And have you been here long?
00:14:12 A little over a week.
00:14:14 I came to be with Nicholas because I...
00:14:18 Who would that be?
00:14:32 Nicholas, how are you, my friend?
00:14:36 Pail.
00:14:38 You slept badly, have you?
00:14:40 Charles.
00:14:41 We have a visitor.
00:14:45 Splendid, splendid.
00:14:47 Exactly what you need, Charles.
00:14:50 It's Elizabeth's brother.
00:14:52 Oh?
00:14:54 You mean he is?
00:14:56 Yes.
00:15:05 Dr. Charles Leon at your service, sir.
00:15:08 Doctor, you are, I understand, Elizabeth's brother.
00:15:13 The resemblance is clear.
00:15:15 The coloring, the same configuration.
00:15:18 Beautiful woman, your sister.
00:15:20 Doctor.
00:15:21 Ah, dear.
00:15:23 I've interrupted your meal, I see.
00:15:25 Proper timing was never my fault.
00:15:27 We are just finished.
00:15:28 Won't you join us in a glass of wine, Charles?
00:15:30 Delighted.
00:15:35 So, young gentleman, you've come all the way from England, then?
00:15:38 That's right.
00:15:40 Terrible tragedy, your sister's death.
00:15:42 Appalling business.
00:15:43 How are things in Bastan, Charles?
00:15:45 What?
00:15:46 Always, always, Nicholas.
00:15:50 Buying and selling, living and dying.
00:15:53 The weave of life.
00:15:56 Why did my sister die, Dr. Leon?
00:16:00 Have you not been told?
00:16:01 Of course he has.
00:16:02 Well, then.
00:16:03 I want to hear it from you, Doctor.
00:16:09 Uh, death was inevitable, I fear.
00:16:14 Under the circumstances.
00:16:16 This castle, this odious atmosphere.
00:16:20 What has the castle to do with it?
00:16:23 What has the castle?
00:16:25 It's too late now, Charles.
00:16:26 I...
00:16:28 I didn't want him to know.
00:16:29 Know what?
00:16:34 Your sister's death was caused by a failure of the heart, sir, due to total shock.
00:16:39 Literally, she died of fright.
00:16:42 Why did you not tell me?
00:16:44 I thought to spare you, sir.
00:16:46 You thought to deceive me.
00:16:47 That's not true.
00:16:48 What is all this?
00:16:49 Show me where it happened.
00:16:54 Very well.
00:16:55 No, Nicholas.
00:16:56 There is no other way, my dear.
00:16:58 We were wrong.
00:17:00 Very wrong to have kept the truth from Mr. Barnet.
00:17:04 Now we are doubly suspect in his eyes.
00:17:07 Suspect?
00:17:09 Come.
00:17:11 Nicholas.
00:17:13 You should not be doing this, you know.
00:17:16 You're not well.
00:17:18 It cannot be avoided, Charles.
00:17:22 Go.
00:17:24 [Groaning]
00:17:53 Well?
00:18:15 Torture chamber?
00:18:17 Yes, Mr. Barnet.
00:18:19 It was my father's.
00:18:21 Sebastian Medina, one of the Inquisition's most infamous degraded--
00:18:25 Please, sir, that is enough.
00:18:26 Mr. Barnet, can you not see--
00:18:28 What was my sister doing here?
00:18:31 She could not keep herself away.
00:18:50 That noise I heard, is that what was--
00:18:52 No, sir, that particular device was not in operation.
00:18:55 Which device?
00:18:56 It's in an adjoining chamber down there.
00:19:00 Please, Mr. Barnet, do not go there.
00:19:02 I do not wish to discuss it.
00:19:06 The story, sir, in detail.
00:19:13 This was my father's world, Mr. Barnet.
00:19:15 Spare yourself at least this, Nicholas.
00:19:17 How can I spare myself?
00:19:20 Was he not my father?
00:19:22 Am I not the spawn of his depraved blood?
00:19:27 His depravity is not yours, Nicholas.
00:19:30 Why scourge yourself because of it?
00:19:32 You have not answered me, Don Medina.
00:19:35 I shall not dwell upon the history of this blasphemous chamber.
00:19:42 Suffice it that the blood of a thousand men and women was spilled within these walls.
00:19:47 Limbs twisted and broken, eyes gouged from bloody sockets, flesh burned black.
00:19:54 Why are you telling me these things?
00:19:56 What have they to do with my sister?
00:19:58 You should never have brought her here.
00:20:01 She was too sensitive, too aware.
00:20:04 Aware of what?
00:20:06 The malignant atmosphere of this castle.
00:20:10 It destroyed her.
00:20:12 My sister was a strong and willful woman, not subject to the influence of atmospheres.
00:20:19 You have been here only a matter of hours, Mr. Barnet.
00:20:23 You cannot know what it is to live here month upon month, year after year,
00:20:31 breathing this infernal air, absorbing the miasma of barbarity which permeates these walls,
00:20:39 particularly this chamber.
00:20:42 But it did not bother her at first either.
00:20:46 Our life was good, rich with the shared pleasures of our love.
00:20:58 Each morning I would bring her breakfast.
00:21:04 In the afternoons, she usually sat for me while I attempted, all in vain, to capture her beauty on canvas.
00:21:13 I did that portrait which you saw in her room before,
00:21:17 but it is all inadequate to recall the loveliness of her.
00:21:22 We dined sometimes alone, enjoying intimate conversation, sometimes with the doctor.
00:21:32 And every night Elizabeth would play for me.
00:21:38 Life was simple, quiet, richly pleasurable.
00:21:46 And then the darkness began to fall.
00:21:50 More and more, entering her room in the mornings, I would find her awake
00:21:56 and discover that she had not slept all the night.
00:21:59 I tried to find out why, but she had no explanation.
00:22:04 Her appetite began to fade.
00:22:07 She began to lose weight and color.
00:22:09 I tried to make her eat, but something kept her from it.
00:22:15 I would come upon her wandering in the corridors at night.
00:22:20 I tried to find out what was wrong, but she never had an answer except to say that
00:22:25 that something was oppressing her.
00:22:28 Oh, God help me for my blindness! I should have known.
00:22:34 Then one day she disappeared.
00:22:37 Frantic, I searched the castle for her.
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00:22:52 And then I knew.
00:22:54 The castle and its awful history had obsessed her.
00:22:59 These very instruments of torture, which were my birthright and my curse,
00:23:05 now tormented her as well, infecting her with a kind of haunted fascination
00:23:11 I watched her drawn to one and then another, as if the aura of pain and suffering
00:23:17 which surrounded them was luring her to sickness and to death.
00:23:24 [music]
00:23:28 Immediately I made my plans to leave the castle with her.
00:23:32 We would travel for a while, restore her spirits, and then make our home elsewhere.
00:23:39 Then on the very eve of our departure, we heard a scream from below,
00:23:46 the most hideous, blood-chilling scream I have ever heard in my life.
00:23:52 [music]
00:24:11 Just before she died, she whispered a name.
00:24:15 Sebastian.
00:24:17 Sebastian.
00:24:20 Sebastian.
00:24:23 [thunder]
00:24:29 Mr. Varner.
00:24:36 Dornian.
00:24:37 May I speak with you?
00:24:39 Yes, of course. How is your brother?
00:24:42 Better, thank you. Dr. Leon is staying with him.
00:24:48 I have come to ask you to please believe him, Mr. Varner.
00:24:52 He has told you the truth.
00:24:55 Has he?
00:24:58 Yes. In not telling you before, he only meant to spare you pain.
00:25:04 He is a good man, Mr. Varner. A kind and gentle man.
00:25:10 And I know that he adored your sister.
00:25:14 I would like to believe him, Dona Medina, but I find it very difficult to do so.
00:25:26 There is something about him I cannot help but sense.
00:25:29 A kind of fearful tension that...
00:25:33 I'm sorry, but an air of definite guilt.
00:25:37 Of course he suffers from guilt, Mr. Barnard.
00:25:41 Because of what our father did.
00:25:44 Because of what happened to Elizabeth.
00:25:47 Perhaps it will help you to understand if I tell you something...
00:25:51 that happened to Nicholas when he was just a boy.
00:25:56 One day, while Nicholas was playing in the lower corridor...
00:26:05 he had been forbidden by our father to enter this chamber at any time.
00:26:11 The curiosity of youth, however, overcame his fear of challenging our father's discipline.
00:26:18 He had to see the chamber.
00:26:22 [Music]
00:26:26 [Music]
00:26:29 [Music]
00:26:37 [Music]
00:26:51 [Music]
00:26:54 Suddenly, there were footsteps.
00:27:07 [Music]
00:27:10 It was our father.
00:27:16 With him were our mother and our uncle Bartolome, who was our father's brother.
00:27:22 [Music]
00:27:25 [Music]
00:27:40 [Music]
00:27:43 At first it appeared that for some inexplicable reason...
00:27:57 our father was actually conducting them on a tour of his ghastly chamber.
00:28:05 Nicholas could see that both our mother and our uncle were uneasy, frightened.
00:28:11 Our father's smiling affability as he described the workings of these hellish instruments...
00:28:18 turned Nicholas's blood cold.
00:28:21 He watched them with a mounting sense of premonition.
00:28:25 Something was wrong, most terribly wrong.
00:28:29 Even he, no more than ten years of age, could sense it like a darkening vapor in the air.
00:28:36 There was no reason for our mother and our uncle to have been there.
00:28:40 [Screaming]
00:28:42 As he struck, he kept on screaming at his brother, one word over and over.
00:28:50 "Adulterer, adulterer."
00:28:53 And then he turned on her.
00:28:56 [Screaming]
00:28:58 Accusing her of vile debaucheries with his brother.
00:29:02 Cursing her as faithless.
00:29:04 Promising her the agonies of hell in payment for her infidelity.
00:29:09 And there before my brother's very eyes...
00:29:14 our mother was tortured to death.
00:29:22 Ever since then, Nicholas has been unable to live as other men.
00:29:28 Always he is haunted by the memory of that terrible day.
00:29:32 Your sister's death came very close to driving him insane, Mr. Barnard.
00:29:37 I beg of you, have pity on him.
00:29:42 Help him by believing him.
00:29:45 I will try, Tonya Medina.
00:29:51 Well, I know you must be very tired from your journey.
00:29:55 Good night.
00:29:57 Tonya.
00:29:59 [Thunder]
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00:31:40 Who is there?
00:31:42 I'll see.
00:31:44 Where's Nicholas?
00:31:50 He's gone.
00:31:52 I must have dozed off in that chair and then I heard...
00:31:57 I don't understand. Surely it's your brother.
00:32:01 No, Nicholas has never played the harpsichord in his life.
00:32:05 [Music]
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00:32:29 Maria.
00:32:31 I heard the playing, sir.
00:32:35 Go back to bed, child.
00:32:38 [Footsteps]
00:32:51 Nicholas.
00:32:53 [Music]
00:32:57 It was Elizabeth.
00:32:59 You saw her?
00:33:01 I did not have to see her.
00:33:05 I know her playing.
00:33:08 [Music]
00:33:11 [Door opening]
00:33:13 [Door closing]
00:33:15 [Footsteps]
00:33:22 [Door opening]
00:33:24 Locked?
00:33:26 Yes.
00:33:29 Is there another door?
00:33:31 There is not, sir.
00:33:33 [Music]
00:33:46 My sisters.
00:33:48 Easy, easy.
00:33:50 [Music]
00:34:09 [Door opening]
00:34:11 [Music]
00:34:29 It was she.
00:34:31 [Footsteps]
00:34:33 Come, drink this.
00:34:35 [Drinking]
00:34:39 Thank you.
00:34:41 [Drinking]
00:34:48 Hers?
00:34:50 Yes.
00:34:52 She will sleep in a minute or so.
00:34:54 Doctor, will you stay, please?
00:34:57 Yes, of course, my dear, until the morning at any rate.
00:35:00 [Drinking]
00:35:04 My dear Lord.
00:35:06 It is hers, isn't it?
00:35:08 It is.
00:35:10 But how?
00:35:11 Let us not talk here.
00:35:13 May we use your room, sir?
00:35:15 Yes, of course.
00:35:17 [Footsteps]
00:35:32 What I am about to tell you, no one in this world except Nicholas and myself knows.
00:35:38 That is, I thought that no one else knew.
00:35:42 Take this.
00:35:44 Drink it.
00:35:46 To be absolutely blunt about it,
00:35:52 Nicholas believes that Elizabeth may have been interred prematurely.
00:35:58 What?
00:36:00 I hasten to assure you both that such is not the case.
00:36:03 Elizabeth was quite dead.
00:36:05 I would stake my reputation on that fact.
00:36:08 Then why does he believe it?
00:36:11 Because of what happened to his mother many years ago.
00:36:14 I am afraid I don't understand.
00:36:17 I told Mr. Barnard what Nicholas saw that day.
00:36:20 No, my dear.
00:36:22 Your mother was not tortured to death, as you were told.
00:36:27 But...
00:36:28 She was tortured, yes, but not to death.
00:36:33 Do I make myself clear?
00:36:35 Do you mean to say that...
00:36:37 Your mother was walled up in her tomb while yet alive.
00:36:42 Oh.
00:36:44 From that day forth,
00:36:49 the very thought of premature interment was enough to drive your brother into convulsions of horror.
00:36:55 Nicholas broods about it constantly.
00:36:58 Already he has told me he has heard Elizabeth walking the corridors.
00:37:03 Even that he has heard her speaking his name.
00:37:06 Dr. Lyon.
00:37:07 Sir.
00:37:09 You seem to forget that we all heard the harpsichord play.
00:37:13 No, I have not forgotten it, sir.
00:37:16 It is why I said before that I thought that no one but Nicholas and myself knew about this.
00:37:21 What do you mean?
00:37:23 Someone I fear has discovered Nicholas' secret and is using it as a terrible advantage.
00:37:29 A servant perhaps.
00:37:30 I could almost more easily believe that...
00:37:35 That what, Dona Medina?
00:37:39 Nothing.
00:37:42 I spoke without thought.
00:37:45 I want to know one thing, sir.
00:37:51 Are you absolutely positive that Dona Medina's dread is unwarranted?
00:37:58 If Elizabeth Medina walks the corridors of this castle,
00:38:01 it is her spirit, not her living self.
00:38:05 [Silence]
00:38:08 [Thunder]
00:38:11 [Scream]
00:38:20 Where did it come from?
00:38:22 Elizabeth's room.
00:38:25 What is it, Charles?
00:38:30 [Scream]
00:38:35 [Thunder]
00:38:38 Easy, Charles. Easy.
00:38:49 Now tell us what happened to her.
00:38:51 I... I heard her.
00:38:54 Heard?
00:38:56 The mistress.
00:38:58 I was cleaning up the room and she spoke to me.
00:39:03 She called me by my name.
00:39:05 Maria. She said, "Maria, leave this room."
00:39:10 My wife spoke to you.
00:39:13 My wife spoke...
00:39:14 Nicholas!
00:39:30 No one will ever enter that room again.
00:39:34 Mr. Barnard, I'm afraid...
00:39:35 No need explaining, Nicholas.
00:39:37 Mr. Barnard knows everything.
00:39:41 Take care of the girl, will you, Catherine?
00:39:51 I'll see to it, Dona Medina, if you want to go with your brother.
00:39:54 Thank you.
00:39:55 Come, Maria. Let me help you downstairs.
00:40:00 Perhaps I should bring some food to Nicholas.
00:40:04 You will not eat it, my dear.
00:40:06 Any more than you are eating yours.
00:40:09 I'm not hungry.
00:40:11 You need your strength, nonetheless.
00:40:13 If I may interrupt this fascinating conversation for a moment.
00:40:17 How long, may I ask, do you intend to accept these occurrences at face value?
00:40:22 I should have thought, Mr. Barnard, that a man of your investigative zeal...
00:40:26 would have already solved the mystery.
00:40:29 And have you, doctor?
00:40:31 I am not certain.
00:40:33 But do you remember that no one actually heard Elizabeth's voice?
00:40:37 We have only Maria's word for it.
00:40:40 We proceed on similar lines, doctor.
00:40:42 In questioning Maria, I asked her to describe the voice she heard.
00:40:46 And?
00:40:47 She could not describe it, doctor, because it only whispered to her.
00:40:51 This point seems of vital import to you, doesn't it?
00:40:55 Yes.
00:41:22 Madam Medina!
00:41:23 Madam Medina!
00:41:26 The key to Elizabeth's room.
00:41:30 The key, I said!
00:41:31 Again?
00:41:38 Do not go there, Nicholas.
00:41:42 I must.
00:41:43 Come.
00:41:44 Nicholas!
00:42:02 Nicholas!
00:42:03 Come.
00:42:05 Come.
00:42:07 Come.
00:42:09 Come.
00:42:10 Come.
00:42:12 Come.
00:42:14 Come.
00:42:15 Come.
00:42:17 [HUMMING]
00:42:19 [HUMMING]
00:42:21 [HUMMING]
00:42:24 [HUMMING]
00:42:27 [HUMMING]
00:42:29 [HUMMING]
00:42:57 What I have dreaded all these months has come to pass.
00:43:02 You are wrong, Nicholas.
00:43:03 No.
00:43:04 No, she haunts me because of the terrible thing I did to her.
00:43:09 Mr. Barnard!
00:43:11 What in the name of heaven...
00:43:13 And have you nothing to say, Don Medina?
00:43:17 I don't understand, sir.
00:43:19 Do you not, sir?
00:43:21 Then with your permission, I will enlighten you.
00:43:24 What is the meaning of this?
00:43:25 The meaning, doctor, is this.
00:43:27 Only one person in this castle could have caused all these inexplicable occurrences.
00:43:31 That person is Don Medina.
00:43:33 What?
00:43:34 You're mad, sir.
00:43:35 Am I?
00:43:36 Mr. Barnard, I swear that I...
00:43:38 This secret passage, sir.
00:43:40 How convenient for you.
00:43:42 Enabling you to whisper to Maria without being seen.
00:43:46 Then, after the door to Elizabeth's room had been locked by you,
00:43:49 enabling you to return there and at your leisure demolish everything.
00:43:52 You are wrong, sir. I swear I...
00:43:54 You are lying, sir.
00:43:56 When Maria screamed, where were you?
00:43:58 When Elizabeth's room was being torn apart, where were you?
00:44:01 Why were you not investigating that?
00:44:03 I was afraid...
00:44:06 You lie!
00:44:08 Both times you were in Elizabeth's room yourself.
00:44:11 Both times your own door was locked,
00:44:14 protecting you from discovery.
00:44:16 No, that's not true. That's not true.
00:44:18 Why should Nicholas do these things?
00:44:20 Why?
00:44:23 Is it possible?
00:44:25 Is it possible I am doing these things...
00:44:31 unaware...
00:44:33 to punish myself?
00:44:36 No, Nicholas, no.
00:44:38 One of the servants is responsible, most likely Maria.
00:44:41 Could I have kept that ring without knowing it?
00:44:50 Played the harpsichord without knowing it?
00:44:53 Destroyed Elizabeth's room all without knowing it?
00:44:56 My inner mind...
00:45:00 creating evidence of Elizabeth's vengeful return
00:45:04 because that mind knows.
00:45:06 But I don't know!
00:45:10 I will find out.
00:45:14 No.
00:45:17 No.
00:45:18 It's the only way, Catherine. It's the only way.
00:45:21 I must be sure.
00:45:25 I must be sure.
00:45:28 Can you not stop this?
00:45:31 I do not believe I wish to stop it, my dear.
00:45:34 If this is the only way of convincing Nicholas
00:45:38 that he did not bury his wife alive,
00:45:40 then I say by all means, do it.
00:45:42 This groundless dread must be stopped.
00:45:46 This dread must finally be put to rest.
00:45:49 We will exhume Elizabeth.
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00:48:37 True.
00:48:55 True!
00:49:02 I swear to you, I thought she was dead.
00:49:05 On my honor as a physician, I thought she was dead.
00:49:09 I swear to you.
00:49:11 True.
00:49:13 True.
00:49:16 True.
00:49:18 -True! -Nicholas.
00:49:20 -True! -Nicholas!
00:49:22 -True! -No, Nicholas!
00:49:24 True!
00:49:27 [♪♪♪]
00:49:30 [♪♪♪]
00:49:54 Nicholas!
00:49:56 I killed her.
00:49:59 I killed her.
00:50:01 I killed her.
00:50:03 -No, Nicholas. -I killed her.
00:50:06 I killed her.
00:50:08 [explosion]
00:50:11 Nicholas.
00:50:35 I would suggest, Nicholas, that you leave this place.
00:50:39 Your remaining here cannot help, Elizabeth, now.
00:50:43 Try to understand, Nicholas.
00:50:49 I am a doctor of medicine.
00:50:52 Never in my career have I seen...
00:50:55 a condition which so completely paralleled the physical appearance of death.
00:51:02 You cannot feel responsible, Nicholas.
00:51:05 While we were up here mourning as she was alive...
00:51:10 struggling to be free...
00:51:13 I am responsible. If it were not so, she would not want to haunt me.
00:51:18 She does not haunt you, Nicholas.
00:51:20 Can you not see that? It is you punishing yourself.
00:51:24 I must leave in the morning.
00:51:28 Already I have been grossly negligent of my other patients.
00:51:32 I beg of you, leave with me.
00:51:37 I can never leave.
00:51:40 I must accept whatever vengeance Elizabeth chooses to inflict upon me.
00:51:46 [explosion]
00:51:56 Dr. Medina?
00:51:58 Dr. Medina?
00:52:01 What is it, Mr. Barhead?
00:52:04 May I speak with you?
00:52:05 Certainly.
00:52:06 I came to apologize.
00:52:09 Apologize?
00:52:12 But everything you said...
00:52:14 I know that my suspicions were justified.
00:52:17 But not as I had expected.
00:52:19 I realize now that my sister's death was an accident.
00:52:23 I do not blame your brother.
00:52:25 I feel only sympathy for him.
00:52:28 What I did was, I assure you, only because of Elizabeth.
00:52:32 I think I understand.
00:52:35 [explosion]
00:52:37 I'm sorry that our meeting...
00:52:41 should have taken place under such unhappy circumstances.
00:52:45 Had things been otherwise...
00:52:48 perhaps we shall meet again...
00:52:52 in Barcelona.
00:52:55 I hope so.
00:52:57 Good night, Tania.
00:53:00 Good night.
00:53:02 [explosion]
00:53:04 Doctor, where are you going, sir?
00:53:14 To apologize to Don Medina.
00:53:16 I wouldn't speak to him just now.
00:53:19 He is much overwrought.
00:53:21 In the morning, perhaps.
00:53:23 You will be leaving then?
00:53:25 Yes.
00:53:27 Will you accept the hospitality of my carriage?
00:53:30 Thank you, doctor. Good night.
00:53:33 Good night, Mr. Barnett.
00:53:35 [explosion]
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00:54:18 [explosion]
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00:54:44 [music]
00:54:46 Elizabeth?
00:54:55 [explosion]
00:55:05 [music]
00:55:07 Elizabeth?
00:55:29 [music]
00:55:31 [explosion]
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00:56:25 [music]
00:56:27 Elizabeth?
00:56:40 Where are you?
00:56:42 Elizabeth?
00:56:55 Where are you?
00:56:57 Nicholas?
00:57:20 [explosion]
00:57:22 Nicholas?
00:57:35 [explosion]
00:57:47 [music]
00:57:49 Is my brother with you?
00:57:58 No, is he not in his room?
00:58:00 No.
00:58:01 He must be with Dr. Leon then.
00:58:03 [knocking]
00:58:14 Nicholas?
00:58:16 I will check below. You two search this floor and the one above.
00:58:34 All right.
00:58:36 [explosion]
00:58:39 [music]
00:58:41 Is that you?
00:58:56 Elizabeth?
00:59:07 Elizabeth?
00:59:09 Nicholas?
00:59:26 [music]
00:59:28 [explosion]
00:59:44 Elizabeth?
00:59:48 [music]
00:59:50 Elizabeth?
01:00:03 Elizabeth?
01:00:14 Where are you?
01:00:17 [explosion]
01:00:19 Elizabeth?
01:00:24 Elizabeth?
01:00:38 [explosion]
01:00:44 [music]
01:00:47 [music]
01:01:15 [screaming]
01:01:17 [screaming]
01:01:21 [explosion]
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01:01:39 [music]
01:01:41 [music]
01:02:09 Nicholas?
01:02:11 Nicholas?
01:02:29 [screaming]
01:02:31 [crying]
01:02:36 [crying]
01:02:39 [crying]
01:02:41 [crying]
01:02:59 [crying]
01:03:01 I told you to wait.
01:03:24 I couldn't.
01:03:26 [coughing]
01:03:28 He's gone.
01:03:48 [music]
01:03:54 [music]
01:03:56 What about my brother?
01:04:14 He's supposed to leave in the morning.
01:04:17 But now...
01:04:19 Why couldn't you wait one more day?
01:04:22 I've waited too long already.
01:04:25 Oh, my darling Nicholas.
01:04:44 We've broken you at last.
01:04:46 Elizabeth, there is no time for this.
01:04:49 I've waited an eternity for this moment.
01:04:52 There has to be time.
01:04:54 And now, my dear Nicholas, I have you exactly as I want you.
01:04:59 Helpless.
01:05:01 Elizabeth.
01:05:03 Is it not ironical, my husband?
01:05:06 Your wife an adulteress.
01:05:09 Your mother an adulteress.
01:05:12 Your uncle an adulteress.
01:05:15 Your closest friend an adulteress.
01:05:20 Do you not find that amusing, dear Nicholas?
01:05:25 Yes.
01:05:29 [laughing]
01:05:33 What's happening to him?
01:05:40 Happening?
01:05:44 Why, what should be happening, Isabella?
01:05:48 Isabella?
01:05:50 Ah, you, Bartholome, my brother.
01:05:54 How do you like my little workshop, huh?
01:05:58 Dear God.
01:06:03 Well, what ails you, brother, huh?
01:06:06 And you, my dear, why are you so pale?
01:06:09 Does this place disturb you?
01:06:12 I thought the two of you would enjoy the novelty of it.
01:06:17 Come, let me show you about a bit.
01:06:20 Where are you going, Isabella?
01:06:22 Bartholome!
01:06:24 Are you leaving me?
01:06:27 Don't you want to see my...
01:06:32 God.
01:06:34 I'm not going to torture you, Isabella.
01:06:48 I'm going to make you suffer for your faithlessness to me.
01:06:53 Before this day is out, you will be begging me to kill you.
01:06:58 To relieve you of the agony of hell into which your husband is about to plunge you.
01:07:05 Harlot!
01:07:08 You will die in agony.
01:07:11 Die!
01:07:13 [screaming]
01:07:20 [screaming]
01:07:23 [screaming]
01:07:26 Good night.
01:07:44 [gulping]
01:07:47 Now, Bartholome, my brother.
01:08:00 [gurgling]
01:08:28 [screaming]
01:08:31 Bartholome!
01:08:36 Bartholome!
01:08:39 Where are you?
01:08:41 You cannot hide from me, you know.
01:08:44 Don Medina!
01:08:49 Don Medina!
01:08:51 There you are, Bartholome.
01:08:54 [gulping]
01:08:57 Oh, there you are, sir. We've been searching all over for you.
01:09:07 And now for you, Bartholome, my beloved brother.
01:09:13 While you are still alive.
01:09:16 My ultimate device of torture.
01:09:21 [whistling]
01:09:24 Are you ready now, Bartholome?
01:09:30 Bartholome.
01:09:33 [whistling]
01:09:37 [whistling]
01:09:41 [whistling]
01:09:45 [whistling]
01:10:13 [whistling]
01:10:16 Now we are ready to begin, Bartholome.
01:10:40 Do you know where you are, Bartholome?
01:10:43 Don Medina, I am Francis Barney.
01:10:46 I will tell you where you are.
01:10:49 You are about to enter hell, Bartholome.
01:10:53 Hell!
01:10:55 The netherworld.
01:10:57 The infernal regions.
01:11:00 The abode of the damned.
01:11:03 The place of torment.
01:11:05 Pandemonium.
01:11:06 Abaddon.
01:11:07 Torment.
01:11:08 Gehenna.
01:11:09 Naraka.
01:11:10 The pit.
01:11:12 And the pendulum.
01:11:14 The razor edge of destiny.
01:11:22 Thus the condition of man.
01:11:27 Bound on an island from which he can never hope to escape.
01:11:33 Surrounded by the waiting pit of hell.
01:11:37 The inevitable pendulum of fate.
01:11:40 Which must destroy him finally.
01:11:43 Nicholas?
01:11:45 Nicholas, are you in there?
01:11:47 Catherine, help me!
01:11:50 [whistling]
01:11:53 [whistling]
01:11:56 Nicholas?
01:12:15 [whistling]
01:12:18 Nicholas!
01:12:40 [whistling]
01:12:43 Nicholas!
01:12:51 [whistling]
01:12:55 [snoring]
01:12:58 [snoring]
01:13:26 [snoring]
01:13:29 [snoring]
01:13:32 Master Millian!
01:13:58 We must break into the torture chamber, quickly!
01:14:01 [gunshot]
01:14:04 [snoring]
01:14:08 [snoring]
01:14:11 [snoring]
01:14:15 [snoring]
01:14:19 [snoring]
01:14:22 [snoring]
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01:16:19 Master Millian!
01:16:26 [whistling]
01:16:29 [whistling]
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01:16:56 [whistling]
01:16:59 Something with Dina. She thought that I was...
01:17:06 Shh! It's over now.
01:17:09 Nicholas.
01:17:23 [whistling]
01:17:26 [gunshot]
01:17:33 [whistling]
01:17:36 [whistling]
01:17:45 [whistling]
01:17:48 No one will ever enter this room again.
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