What boots it to tell of the long, long hours of horror more than mortal, during which I counted the rushing oscillations of the steel! Inch by inch -- line by line -- with a descent only appreciable at intervals that seemed ages -- down and still down it came! --- Edgar Alan Poe, "The Pit and the Pendulum"

Alexa Morgan finds herself tied down to a cot in a warehouse with a menacing blade attached to a weird apparatus above her. Her mouth is gagged with a cloth and she looks about frantically. After a moment, the apparatus comes to life and the blade swings back and forth over her. Slowly... Show more