gokeymichael This was an extremely entertaining early 80's find. I loved it. The little kid, Jamie, was one little creepy kid, not to steal a Wally Beaver line. There was the horror aspect to this creep out and then there was the comedic part to it. The part of the movie where Jamie realizes that the pit trogs like human meat and then goes on a spree. The kid is creepy because he acts so much older than his 12 years in some places and then in others he is less mature than that 12 years. His best pal "Teddy" gives him advice and helps him out with his moral dilemma's. You can see the ending coming from a mile away, but it is funny anyway. This is a little kid creeper that is a lot of fun to watch. Right up my alley. You can tell this is an early 80's flick by the clothing and the look of the movie. It doesn't hurt the movie, it actually makes it better, more cult. If you don't like dated movies or poor film quality, then go elsewhere. If you appreciate the offbeat flicks from our neon decade, then go for it.

lost-in-limbo You got problems… check your nearby woods and maybe they'll be solved. Twelve-year-old Jamie is a strange, sexually obsessed loner whose only real friend is a sinister, scheming stuffed teddy bear that talks to him. He has secret that in the nearby woods he finds a large hole in the ground which harbours a pack of prehistoric beasts known as troglodytes. He doesn't know what to feed them, until reads up on them and learns they're carnivorous. So those people who have harassed him or got on his bad side will soon find out about Jamie's secret. However he did tell his secret to one other; the attractive babysitter looking after him since his parents have gone away… but maybe that wasn't such a good idea."The Pit" is a very peculiar, but hypnotic b-grade l, drive-in rural psycho-kid outing that's a lot of fun. If you enjoy something rather twisted, senseless and perverse with a dark sense of humour. What it really has going for it is the extra creepy and disquieting performance of Sammy Snyders as Jamie. He striking visual features standout and he superbly plays a disturb mindset, as if he entirely lives in his own world along with his teddy. Quite a seedy little teddy, but still don't know if its because of his imagination or if it was possessed due to one sequence which has its head moving with Jamie being nowhere in the scene. The dialogues between the two are dementedly funny, but still there's a real sincerity about it. The lovely Jeannie Ellis plays the concerned babysitter who tries to communicate and understand him, but she finds out he's truly a little monster. Director Lew Lehman plays it as it is, never trying for anything truly clever. While its low-scale restrictions show it up at times (don't know why it began with a scene that shows up later on), but Lehman's vivid creativity shows in sequences along with the mean-spirited vibe and immensely unpredictable nature. There's a little touch sleaze (the voyeuristic peeping) and blood and gore, but the killings mainly happened off-screen (some moments were quite rib-tickling with how certain people just don't seem to see the pit before taking the trip in) and monsters are nothing more than cheesy costumes with the striking element being the glowing eyes. Most of the time they're in a dark pit, until later on when they come to the surface to cause havoc. The music score is sweepingly full of life, but terribly overwrought and the final shot ends on such a perfectly foreboding and ironic note that goes down so well.

udar55 12-year-old Jaime (Sammy Snyders) discovers a pit in the nearby woods that houses four carnivorous monsters (he calls them Tralalogs). For whatever reason, he decides these monsters need to be fed and he goes about tricking anyone he deems bad into the pit. Did I mention Jaime is a pervert who has a teddy bear that speaks to him? File this one under "They sure as hell don't make 'em like this anymore." I can't fathom anyone making a horror flick like this nowadays, especially casting a real 12-year-old in the perverted lead role. Snyders is either one hell of an actor, or he really was this odd when they were filming. Imagine a pre-teen Crispin Glover with a bowl cut. Apparently the original script had the monsters exist only in Jaime's mind, but director Lew Lehman (one and done after this) changed while the film was made.

Coventry 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!