KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

FuzzyTagz If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Leofwine_draca THE DEAD PIT is a low budget zombie splatter movie given the high definition treatment by the Code Red DVD company. They've got their hands on the unrated version which is full of extra gore scenes including graphic scenes of brain surgery and the like. The setting is a creepy mental hospital where a mad doctor was entombed in the basement after doing illegal experiments on his patients. In the present day, an earthquake sees him released to carry on his crazy business once more. Sure, this low budget production is rough around the edges and highly cheesy, with ham acting throughout, but it's also quite amusing. The exploitation value is high, as evinced in a scene in which a woman is sprayed with a water hose which manages to rip off her top. She also spends half the running time running around in her underwear. The emphasis, however, is on the bloodshed and it flows quite freely here. There are slasher-style murders (seemingly inspired by DRILLER KILLER at times), zombie attacks, and the aforementioned mutilation and surgery. It's too cheesy to be affecting, but it is fun.

kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS****It was when the righteous and caring Dr. Gerald Swan, Jeremy Slate,did what was he thought was to be a good deed for all of humanity by blasting the crazed and diabolical Dr.Colin Ramzi, played by Danny Gochnauer in his first and last film or TV appearance,between the eyes when he tried to-like he did to all his victims -lobotomize him you would think we've heard and saw the last of the mad Dr. Ramzi & crew. That after Dr. Slate sealed him and his victims in the basement of the mental hospital that he worked in. But some 20 years later after a typical California earthquake the sealed door to the basement was ripped opened and the doctor and his Zombie victims were loose to inflict evil on the world at large.This all happened when pretty and confused Jean Doe, Cheryl Lawson, was caught wondering around town suffering from a serious case of amnesia and committed to the hospital that Dr. Slate ran to get her memory back. It soon turns out that Dr. Ramzi, with a bullet hole between his eyes,and his band of Zombies are now on the loose and out for blood as well as hearts livers and brains of the patients as well as staff of the hospital and nothing is going to stop them until they get their bellies full. This leads Jane Doe together with the cute and cuddly mental patient Bud Higgins, Michael Jacobs, to try to escape and warn the local authorities of what their facing in a full scale Zombie invasion of their community.****SPOILERS*** Far too extreme and disturbing for most movie goers to watch especially those with weak stomachs the "Death Pit" is short of story but loaded with gore and valiance that makes it successful in the long run with the blood & guts crowd. There's also the side story of the pretty Jean Doe,who gets to show us her boobies in a violent shower scene,connection to the hospital as well as the crazed Dr. Ramzi -who's considered the most brilliant person in the world of modern medicine by his former boss Dr. Slate-that will blow your as well as Jane Doe's mind. Just when Dr. Ramzi and his Zombies are about to take over the mental hospital as well as surrounding community fate lands a hand in stopping them cold with the only the one thing that could :A bottle as well as buckets-from the hospital water tower- of water blessed by an inmate in the hospital Sister Clair,Geha Getz,who knew what Dr. Ramzi was all about and what was necessary to stop him and his roving band of flesh eating and blood drinking Zonmbies.

zombievato Threre's a natural creepiness attached to abandoned buildings. Like an in your face reminder that failure and decay, know no bounds. The grandest empire can fray and crumble at the edges. This was shot in an actual abandoned mental hospital. The sets alone set this above the norm. This is truly one of the best of the 80's schlocky horror films. The story is okay, if not entirely cohesive. The acting, even the background/extras, are better than should be expected. The main character Cheryl Lawson gives her all, and goes the extra mile with a nice (though tacked on) topless dream scene. The effects were done with loving care, as evidenced on the "CODE RED" release with the DVD extras. This IS 80's horror going out in style. Zombies, well done gore, nekkid babes, crazy surgeons, what more do you want? Vince Vaughn?

choppyno Brett Leonard (Lawnmower Man, Hideaway) gives us in his directorial debut a pastiche of De Moro's HELLHOLE and Fulci's CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD, and it holds it's own with those two heavy-weights from opposite poles of the extreme-film spectrum. This movie has raving mental patients, psychotic doctors, people being buried alive, ritual murders in boiler rooms, flesh-hungry zombies, high-quality gore effects, and hot women. Very atmospheric for taking place in a clichéd setting = a mental asylum. Probably the creepiest one caught on film. There are dead bodies all over this movie. Amazing dialog like this doesn't hurt either: -"My God! You're a Doctor! You're supposed to be saving lives!" -"I've done life. Now I'm doing death." Not a disappointment for zombie fans looking for something different, or slasher fans doing the same. Solid. A must see.