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I should never have brought her here. She was too sensitive, too aware.

8 seconds sound clip from the The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:19:59 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Suffice it that the blood of a thousand men and women was spilled within these walls.

- Limbs twisted and broken!

- Eyes gouged from bloody sockets.

- Flesh burned black.

- Why are you telling me these things? What are they to do with my sister?

- I should never have brought her here. She was too sensitive, too aware.

- Aware of what?

- The malignant atmosphere of this castle. It destroyed her.

- My sister was a strong and willful woman, not subject to the influence of atmospheres.

- You have been here only a matter of hours. You cannot know what it is to live here month upon month, year after year, breathing this infernal air...

- Absorbing the miasma of barbarity which permeates these walls, particularly this chamber.

[...]

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) Sound Clip

The Pit and the Pendulum cover

Memorable quotes from The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's 1842 short story of the same name).

Actors: Vincent Price (Nicholas Medina, Sebastian Medina), John Kerr (Francis Barnard), Barbara Steele (Elizabeth), Luana Anders (Catherine Medina), Antony Carbone (Doctor Leon)

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