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Oct 23, 2025

Pete

Mr. Eighties

Pete has published a news story:

On This Day October 23, 1981 – The Pit Premiered In Canada.

On this day October 23, 1981, the Canadian horror film The Pit premiered, offering a strange and unsettling blend of psychological tension and supernatural horror. Directed by Lew Lehman, the movie followed a socially awkward boy who discovers a mysterious pit in the woods filled with creatures he calls trogs. What begins as an innocent discovery quickly turns into a disturbing story of revenge and isolation as fantasy...

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