atinder I was really looking forward to this, a lot decent comments about on sites This boy who is kinda off a outcast, he talks to his bear, who tell him what to do.It wasn't to clearer if Bear was actually talking or they Boy was just thinking bear talking.Anyone who upset the boy, the boy takes them in the wood, to see a Pit and pushes them in there.We don't find until near the end, what is actually in the Pit as they escape the Pit.We do get to see these creatures, they look okay for the time.Acting was just Okay, some acting was really poor.I found ending a little funny, I'm clad it ended it like that 4 out of 10, as I was expected more, it felt more like kids movie

morrison-dylan-fan Getting set to take part in an ICM poll for the best flicks of 1981,I started looking online for titles from the year to stream. Mostly finding mainstream movies,I was very happy to spot a title that looked incredibly strange,which led to me jumping in the pit.The plot:Only having his teddy bear Teddy as a friend, young Jamie Benjamin starts believing that Teddy can talk to him. Bullied by the locals,Benjamin keeps in mind his grand secret,that he has found a group of Trogs based in a pit in the woods. Waving goodbye,Benjamin's parents hire Sandy O'Reilly to babysit. Finding O'Reilly hot,Benjamin asked Teddy for advice on how to get her to become his girlfriend,as Benjamin causes the Trogs to get a taste for humans. View on the film:Originally written as much darker,the screenplay by Ian A. Stuart (who never wrote another film) goes for a Psychotronic paradise. Sending all the folk who Jamie hates into the pit,Stuart gives the dialogue an unsettling Sci-Fi tone,where the bitter and twisted way that the "kind" old folk and the little brats talk sound like they are in an alt world that has gone awry. While not delivering any outright shivers, Stuart covers the film in utterly bizarre antics,from sweet little Jamie getting advice from his psychotic teddy bear Teddy on how to get Sandy to fancy him,to inexplicably deciding that instead of continuing to feed the Trogs animal meat,he should serve them up a daily special of human flesh.Following Stuart in this being his lone movie,director Lew Lehman (who had to get someone else to film scenes with topless women,after getting banned by his wife!) and cinematographer Manfred Guthe bounce the Trogs on an oddball atmosphere,with the critters looking like zombie Ewoks and their feeding time mostly kept to loud eating sounds from the pit. Correctly keeping it ambiguous over if he is aware of the weirdness,Lehman bins into the pit "unique features",bringing up a curve-ball twist that creates a ghost,and a freeze frame ending,that brings Jamie close to this pit of madness.

Vomitron_G The horror, oh the horror this movie put me through... THE PIT is one seriously messed up movie. Plain wrong, even, and it inflicted great horror on me, in a most peculiar way. For one reason, basically: The kid. That incredibly annoying, 12-year-old kid. I never ever loathed a child-actor so much in any film. His ugly face. His atrocious hair-do. His big stupid nose. His irritating voice. All his unfortunate facial characteristics fueled by the intolerable things he says and the way he stood there in every scene, acting his way horrendously throughout the whole movie... A friend of mine messed me up quite severely with having me watch this film. It evoked feelings deep inside me I didn't know were there. I hated that kid. I wanted to reach into my TV-set and hit him repeatedly. Frankly put: I wanted him to die, badly. So, can you imagine my joy when I witnessed what finally happened to him at the end.During the first half of this film, I was convinced I'd be flunking it. I just couldn't get over that little brat. But... my friend was right by telling me I had to see this film, as it's simply an undefinable, demented piece of work. It really is a mess, as the script shows no coherence whatsoever, incorporating so many different elements that you never have any idea where this all is going to lead to. We have: psycho-trite (messed-up kid with imaginary friends), sleaze (all nudity in this film caries seriously disturbing undertones), creature features (trolls in the woods!?!?), demented humor (pulling cows and chasing chickens?), a stuffed toy bear (It moved! Withouth the kid being around even! It frickin' moved, I tell ya!) a warped variety of victims (from kids to wheelchair-bound blind grannies!), ghosts (I'll say that again: Ghosts?) of victims coming back from beyond, a stupid vigilante mob (they honestly believed it was a pack of wild dogs they shot?) and... to top it off: a wonderful, highly memorable 'freeze-frame shock ending' at the end (which I just felt coming during that final scene, and was so hoping for). THE PIT indeed is so "ga-ga", it belongs up there with William Girdler's THE MANITOU and Ulli Lommel's THE BOOGEYMAN. I hope, for his sake, director Lew Lehman checked himself into rehab after this film, because that must have been some serious dope he was on while making it.

movieman_kev A creepy, murderous kid listening to his demonic teddy bear lures various people to their doom in a pit he found in the woods; that is when he's not spying on older women in this weird but campy classic from the '80's. Filled with unnecessary close-ups, ridiculous laugh-out-loud dialog, and hokey acting, this oddity still remains constantly amusing (well truth be told it does lose steam about 20 minutes before the ending) That remains an obscure gem that's highly watchable.Eye Candy: Jeannie Elias, Laura Hollingsworth, and Jennifer Lehman all get topless briefly My Grade: B Anchor Bay DVD Extras: Posters & Stills gallery (on a double-bill with "Hellgate" on this flip-side DVD)