If you loved Down to the Cellar, try The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Jan Švankmajer, and they both carry the body horror, dread, surreal mood tags, and they sit in Animation / Horror / Mystery territory. If that's the register that drew you to Down to the Cellar, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Pit, the Pendulum and Hope is

A medieval dungeon’s torch guttering against damp stone. Iron teeth gnaw the floorboards a millimetre at a time. Jan Švankmajer’s stop-motion grotesques drag you down the same spiral you first climbed.

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