Jamie Benjamin (Sammy Snyders) is the strange kid that no one likes. In a normal film, we'd learn of Jamie's special talent that eventually wins the heart of his small town, or perhaps he'd meet a nice strange girl and the pair would escape from small town mediocrity together, or perhaps something unusual would happen and Jamie would be forced to come out of his shell. We might even learn that there is some problem in his home life motivating his odd behavior. The Pit, however, is most definitely not a normal movie; it is the product of what El Santo over at 1,000 Misspent Hours and Counting would call "wrong thinking". What we learn about Jamie is that he is a voyeur and pervert who is not above using phony claims of kidnapping to force his librarian neighbor to strip in her window so he can take pictures. That alone might be enough for a normal film, but The Pit is not a normal film. You see, providing counsel to Jamie in his bad behavior is his teddy bear, Teddy. Teddy talks to Jamie, and in a normal film we'd be safe to assume that Teddy doesn't actually talk, but in this one it is Teddy's voice which speaks on the phone to the librarian. So, an insane, perverted, and mentally damaged kid and his possibly possessed teddy bear Teddy. That's enough for one movie, right? Well, maybe for your average movie, yes, but not for The Pit. No, The Pit throws in a pit full of little creatures called Tra-la-logs who Jamie feeds people he doesn't like to.![]()
