The Dead Pit (1989)

Director
Brett Leonard

Main cast
Jeremy Slate; Cheryl Lawson; Stephen Gregory Foster; Danny Gochnauer; Geha Getz

Genres
Horror

Description
A renegade doctor is shot dead and entombed with his fiendish experiments in the basement of an abandoned wing of a mental hospital. Twenty years later, a mysterious woman is admitted with amnesia, and her arrival is marked by an earthquake - which cracks the seal to the Dead Pit, freeing the evil doctor to continue his work.


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