The Pit and the PendulumCorman reunited with his House of Usher star Vincent Price for a second Edgar Allan Poe adaptation that also featured horror film darling Barbara Steele (fresh from her success in Bava's Black Sunday).
Price plays the son of an Inquisition executioner who lives in an isolated, sea-bound castle conveniently outfitted with a torture chamber - complete with iron maiden - in the basement.
Ichabod Crane's feverish dreams in Sleepy Hollow, in which Johnny Depp's childhood character is reunited with his beautiful, tragic mother (played by Burton's then girlfriend Lisa Marie) pay skilful and evocative homage to scenes of a childhood trauma Vincent Price's character relives in a horrifying flashback sequence in Corman's lush, extravagant film.
