Life was simple, quiet, richly pleasurable, and then the darkness began to fall.

— Nicholas Medina, Sebastian Medina (Vincent Price)

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

You can hear this line at 00:21:42 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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[...]

- Each morning, I would bring her breakfast.

- In the afternoons, she usually sat for me while I attempted all in vain to capture her beauty on canvas.

- I did that portrait which you saw in her room before, but it is all inadequate to recall the loveliness of her.

- We dined, sometimes alone, enjoying intimate conversation, sometimes with the doctor.

- And every night, Elizabeth would play for me.

- Life was simple, quiet, richly pleasurable, and then the darkness began to fall.

- More and more, entering her room in the mornings, I would find her awake and discover that she had not slept all the night. I tried to find out why, but she had no explanation.

- Her appetite began to fade. She began to lose weight and color. I tried to make her eat, but something kept her from it.

- I would come upon her wandering in the corridors at night.

- I tried to find out what was wrong, but she never had an answer except to say that... that something was oppressing her.

[...]

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