Too much of everything

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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

"The Pit" follows a young adolescent boy, Jamie, who is an outcast in his bucolic small town; his only friend is a teddy bear, he has an unusually focused sexual interest for his age, and his classmates pick on him incessantly. When his parents leave town for an extended business trip, he is left under the care of Sandy, a psychology graduate student who is babysitting to make money. Jamie bonds with her (and also becomes romantically obsessed), and lets her in on his hidden secret: an ominous pit in the woods that is home to a group of carnivorous creatures.Walking the line somewhere between "Carrie" and "Gremlins," (the latter of which it predates), "The Pit" was an unexpected surprise to me. I went into it (no pun intended) with considerably low expectations, given that everything from the synopsis of the film to its poster art scream "really awful '80s movie," so I anticipated little, but found quite a lot to like here. Make no mistake—this film is pretty ridiculous—but it's also quite well-done and takes itself just seriously enough to not implode. If one can get past the silliness of flesh-eating troglodytes being fed local townspeople by a disturbed young boy, the film is insanely enjoyable.While the special effects of the creatures are somewhat dated, and the entire premise utterly insane, "The Pit" no less manages to be engrossing largely due to its lead performances from Sammy Snyders and Jeannie Elias. The scenes between Jamie and Sandy are some of the most interesting (and disturbing) in the film, and set a sinister tone that permeates throughout; the quieter scenes at home are where the pair's acting really shines, and the character dynamics are most vividly realized.The film also gets major points for managing to be suspenseful as the creatures are fed victim after victim—everyone Jamie has been scorned by. It's all headed somewhere grim, and the tension between Jamie and Sandy increases as his antics grow more and more twisted. It's also a very nicely-shot film with some beautiful compositions, and a fantastic, bucolic setting that is rich in atmosphere and lends it a late-'70s Americana feel. The conclusion to the film is unexpected and provides one final jab at the audience that steers from the expected formula.Overall, "The Pit" is a hidden gem of a horror film, and is a mild triumph in its own right. It's the kind of film that takes itself seriously yet requires the complete reverse of its audience. If one can suspend their disbelief, there is a finely-crafted, atmospheric monster movie here. Granted, it is far from scary, but it is ridiculously entertaining, consistently sinister, and never once fails to keep one's attention. It's held up rather well for a film that ascribes itself to such a fantastical premise. 8/10.

This film is surprisingly interesting. I rarely rate a horror film with the idea that I'm laying alongside Citizen Kane. When I do rate them I lay them in relation to how strong they are in the genre. And this film is pretty bizarre. I really found myself enjoying the concept of The pit even if I didn't enjoy the dialogue or acting. Jamie Benjamin,a young boy hitting puberty in an a manner that borders on the creepy that seems unnerving. Whom also hears his teddy bear talking,his only friend since most of the town ridicule him as a weirdo, stumbles upon a Pit. It isn't long before Jamie is convinced that something lives within the pit that's hunger cannot be controlled. That is if this evil exists.I'd say this one was a little bit surprising as I have a hard time being fair to films that are to some extent very interesting premises,but struggle on the execution,but it is still better than a majority of the lesser know 80s horror. This is a film to watch once because of its almost cruel Ironic ending.

This is one seriously messed up and lunatic low-budget early 80's horror production about … um … About a whole bunch of crazy stuff, as a matter a fact! The screenplay for "The Pit" is senseless and beyond incoherent, but at the same time it combines a lot of ingredients that unquestionably will appeal to horror fanatics (and in particular the fans of cheesy and offbeat cult flicks), like psychopathic geek-kids, perverted evil-eyed teddy bears, holes full of prehistoric carnivores, lurid babysitters sleeping with their nipples exposed and hot librarians being forced to take their clothes off. "The Pit" is probably one of the strangest and most delirious 'so-bad-it-is-good' movies of its era, but the weirdness is also oddly addictive and massively entertaining. Twelve year old Jamie Benjamin has issues. Jamie has no friends and his personal babysitter Sandy doesn't love him back, but that's alright since he has profound conversations with his teddy bear (!) and a private collection of troglodyte monsters hidden in a pit somewhere in the nearby forest. When he runs out of money and meat to feed his beloved pit pets, nefarious Teddy advises Jamie to lure "nasty" people to the woods, like Sandy's boyfriend, the angry blind lady in her wheelchair, a couple of school bullies and the insufferable red-headed kid who doesn't let him ride her bicycle. I have to admit I overestimated "The Pit" at first… I was quasi sure that all the teddy bear talking and Trog-creature feeding would lead to a denouement explaining that Jamie's vivid imagination eventually got the upper hand and turned him into a youthful maniac. As I'm sure many other people did, I expected that it would be Jamie himself who committed the murders because Teddy (not God) told him to and there are no such things as troglodytes. Oh hell no! The pit creatures are real and they even break loose near the end, resulting in more gratuitous bloodshed and hilariously incompetent plotting. What a totally bonkers film! Have you ever seen a film in which a 12-year-old kid blackmails an adult female into stripping off her clothes, photograph her naked chest and then subsequently shows the pictures to his perversely sneering teddy bear? Or have you ever witnessed a large number of people falling into a hole in the ground with wide open eyes even though it is plain obvious to see? This movie is out-and-out hilarious, I assure you. Coherence, atmosphere and tension-building didn't really seem to matter to director Lew Lehman, but he nevertheless delivered an unscrupulously amusing potpourri of cheesy horror and deviant themes. Wonderful end shot as well, by the way!