TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

SunnyHello Nice effects though.

Helllins It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

Staci Frederick Blistering performances.

James McKnight This film is surprisingly interesting. I rarely rate a horror film with the idea that I'm laying alongside Citizen Kane. When I do rate them I lay them in relation to how strong they are in the genre. And this film is pretty bizarre. I really found myself enjoying the concept of The pit even if I didn't enjoy the dialogue or acting. Jamie Benjamin,a young boy hitting puberty in an a manner that borders on the creepy that seems unnerving. Whom also hears his teddy bear talking,his only friend since most of the town ridicule him as a weirdo, stumbles upon a Pit. It isn't long before Jamie is convinced that something lives within the pit that's hunger cannot be controlled. That is if this evil exists.I'd say this one was a little bit surprising as I have a hard time being fair to films that are to some extent very interesting premises,but struggle on the execution,but it is still better than a majority of the lesser know 80s horror. This is a film to watch once because of its almost cruel Ironic ending.

Zeegrade I've got news for all of you. All twelve year old boys are obsessed with boobs. Well, most of them are. Sammy Snyders really makes this movie stand out as he really amps up the creep factor as Jamie Benjamin the neighborhood outcast that nobody, and I mean nobody, likes. This misfit is beaten up at school, teased by the local redheaded brat, looked down upon by most adults and has a strained relationship with his father who has grown tired of his antics. The only "friend" Jamie can confide in is Teddy, his stuffed animal that talks back to him and him alone. When his parents leave for an extended period of time they hire Sandy who is just the latest in a string of hired help that must look after the little pervert while keeping the house clean. Jamie is immediately smitten by Sandy and begins his own special way of wooing the older woman like staring at her naked breasts while she is asleep. Not a good start. After this odd morning encounter Jamie tells Sandy his secret. There is a massive pit about a mile from the house and inside this pit are little apelike trolls that only Jamie knows about. Sandy immediately dismisses the story as pure fantasy and tries to reign the little sex-fiend in. When Jamie learns that the "tralops" or whatever he calls them are carnivorous he at first tries to keep them fed by buying meat bought from a butcher until his money supply becomes quickly depleted. Teddy gives Jamie the idea of feeding the monsters all the bad people who have angered him over the years. This leads to one of the most amusing scenes as Jamie lures the people to the hole, knocks them in, quips sarcastically, and exits the forest with whatever booty he acquired from the victims. Eventually taking care of the beasts prove to be too much so Jamie drops a line down into the pit allowing the trogs to run rampant in town. A very enjoyable horror flick from the early eighties with enough naked breasts, goofy plots, and the aforementioned disturbing performance by Sammy Snyders. My only gripe is the fact that the relationship with Teddy is never really hashed out. In one scene the bear's head turns on its own indicating a supernatural explanation rather than Jamie just hearing his own voice during his conversations with it. What was the connection between Teddy and the monsters in the pit or was it just two separate details that just happened to have converged? Needless to say, this doesn't really detract from the movie as even the ending is pretty satisfying. A rather obscure movie that not a whole lot of people refer to when talking about good horror movies of the early eighties and I didn't even need my teddy to tell me that.

udar55 12-year-old Jaime (Sammy Snyders) discovers a pit in the nearby woods that houses four carnivorous monsters (he calls them Tralalogs). For whatever reason, he decides these monsters need to be fed and he goes about tricking anyone he deems bad into the pit. Did I mention Jaime is a pervert who has a teddy bear that speaks to him? File this one under "They sure as hell don't make 'em like this anymore." I can't fathom anyone making a horror flick like this nowadays, especially casting a real 12-year-old in the perverted lead role. Snyders is either one hell of an actor, or he really was this odd when they were filming. Imagine a pre-teen Crispin Glover with a bowl cut. Apparently the original script had the monsters exist only in Jaime's mind, but director Lew Lehman (one and done after this) changed while the film was made.

Coventry This is one seriously messed up and lunatic low-budget early 80's horror production about … um … About a whole bunch of crazy stuff, as a matter a fact! The screenplay for "The Pit" is senseless and beyond incoherent, but at the same time it combines a lot of ingredients that unquestionably will appeal to horror fanatics (and in particular the fans of cheesy and offbeat cult flicks), like psychopathic geek-kids, perverted evil-eyed teddy bears, holes full of prehistoric carnivores, lurid babysitters sleeping with their nipples exposed and hot librarians being forced to take their clothes off. "The Pit" is probably one of the strangest and most delirious 'so-bad-it-is-good' movies of its era, but the weirdness is also oddly addictive and massively entertaining. Twelve year old Jamie Benjamin has issues. Jamie has no friends and his personal babysitter Sandy doesn't love him back, but that's alright since he has profound conversations with his teddy bear (!) and a private collection of troglodyte monsters hidden in a pit somewhere in the nearby forest. When he runs out of money and meat to feed his beloved pit pets, nefarious Teddy advises Jamie to lure "nasty" people to the woods, like Sandy's boyfriend, the angry blind lady in her wheelchair, a couple of school bullies and the insufferable red-headed kid who doesn't let him ride her bicycle. I have to admit I overestimated "The Pit" at first… I was quasi sure that all the teddy bear talking and Trog-creature feeding would lead to a denouement explaining that Jamie's vivid imagination eventually got the upper hand and turned him into a youthful maniac. As I'm sure many other people did, I expected that it would be Jamie himself who committed the murders because Teddy (not God) told him to and there are no such things as troglodytes. Oh hell no! The pit creatures are real and they even break loose near the end, resulting in more gratuitous bloodshed and hilariously incompetent plotting. What a totally bonkers film! Have you ever seen a film in which a 12-year-old kid blackmails an adult female into stripping off her clothes, photograph her naked chest and then subsequently shows the pictures to his perversely sneering teddy bear? Or have you ever witnessed a large number of people falling into a hole in the ground with wide open eyes even though it is plain obvious to see? This movie is out-and-out hilarious, I assure you. Coherence, atmosphere and tension-building didn't really seem to matter to director Lew Lehman, but he nevertheless delivered an unscrupulously amusing potpourri of cheesy horror and deviant themes. Wonderful end shot as well, by the way!