The Dead Pit
5.3
“They're out.”
The arrival of an amnesiac patient in a psychiatric hospital somehow frees a mad doctor, who was shot and entombed with his fiendish experiments in an abandoned wing of the asylum 20 years before.
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Cast
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Jeremy Slate
Dr. Gerald Swan
Known for
True Grit
The Lawnmower Man
Cheryl Lawson
Jane Doe
Also in
J. Edgar
Virtuosity
Stephen Gregory Foster
Christian Meyers
Known for
The Lawnmower Man
Danny Gochnauer
Dr. Colin Ramzi
No other roles listed
Geha Getz
Sister Clair
No other roles listed
Joan Bechtel
Nurse Kygar
Also in
Split
Mara Everett
Nurse Robbins
No other roles listed
Jack A. Sunseri
Head Orderly Jensen / Head Orderly Jensen (as Jack Sunseri)
Also in
The Chilling
Shanna McCullough
Featured Dead (as Marcia Gray) / Body Double
Also in
Lukas' Child
Virtual Desire
Michael Jacobs
ud Higgins / Bud Higgins
Also in
The Chilling
Randall Fontana
Orderly Jimmy
Also in
Virtuosity
Frederick Dodge
First Patient
No other roles listed
Brett Leonard Director · Gimel Everett Writer Marty Collins Cinematographer
Budget $350K · United States release October 1, 1989 · Produced in United States
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Budget
$350,000
Production
Cornerstone Production Company
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · October 1, 1989
Theatrical
Germany
October 31, 1990 · Physical
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