World in panic! Cities in flames!
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Producer: Anthony Nelson Keys
A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London subway station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.
97 min
Rating: 6.6/10
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Andrew Keir
Prof. Bernard Quatermass
James Donald
Dr. Mathew Roney
Barbara Shelley
Barbara Judd
Julian Glover
Colonel Breen
Bryan Marshall
Captain Potter
Movie Info
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Producer: Anthony Nelson Keys
Production Companies: Hammer Film Productions
Countries: United Kingdom
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John Chard:
Creepy, interesting, above all else...intelligent.
Whilst excavating at the site of a new underground tube station, workers unearth a mysterious object. On to the case comes Professor Quatermass who deduces that the object is Martian in origin. Initially viewed with scorn and disbelief, it becomes apparent that the Martian race have been involved in the human race before, and now they have been awoken again.
This was the third Hammer film adaptation of Nigel Kneale's BBC-TV Quatermass serial, with previous entries being The Quatermass Experiment & Quatermass 2. This to me, tho, is undoubtedly the shining light of the bunch. Chiefly what works the best in this one is the wonderful fusion of mystery and intelligence, the eerie sense of dread only off set by a yearning to find out just what has happened? And more crucially, what will happen? Building up perfectly, courtesy of Roy Ward Baker's astutely paced direction, Quatermass And The Pit is a film that just begs you to pay attention to every little detail, each conversation is fully fleshing out this most intriguing story. Then there is the finale that pays off handsomely, to hint at what is involved would result in a spoiler of sorts, and really it would be stupid of me to prepare you for the film's closure.
See it because it's one of the best genre entries of the 60s, a must for sci-fi enthusiasts that like a bit of brains to go with their genre persuasion. 8.5/10