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Cheers.

Is anyone here familiar with Hammer Horror type films? There's one I faintly remember, but whose identity I am utterly at a loss with. This couple go into a house, where they meet the landlord. At some point they are trapped in a pit or something, but for some reason the evil landlord is there with them. They manage to off the landlord, but they then realise that, with the landlord gone, there is no way of escaping, and the film ends with them fruitlessly looking for a way out. For some reason I associate it with Hammer Horror, but it might have been an Alfred Hitchcock Presents kind of short film.
Ok, that's stumped me. Do you remember if it was in black and white? If so, based on the ending, it sounds like something from original Twilight Zone or Outer Limits television shows (or Hitchcock, as you suggest). If it was in color, I would guess the new versions of the Twilight Zone or Outer Limits, with Tales from the Crypt and The Ray Bradbury Theater as other options.

The reasoning for this is that the ending you describe is a non-Hollywood (read: unhappy) ending. While they have been used from time to time, they are rare today and even rarer in older films. However, this kind of ending is very typical of horror genre short stories, and thus became common in television shows and movies which were themselves simply anthologies of those short stories. The above listed programs are the most prominent ones I can think of that fit the bill.