Quatermass (Hammer series)

Andrew Keir

James Donald

Barbara Shelley

Julian Glover

Bryan Marshall

Maurice Good

Duncan Lamont

Peter Copley

Edwin Richfield

Grant Taylor

Noel Howlett

Thomas Heathcote

Robert Morris

Bee Duffell

Sheila Steafel

Hugh Futcher

Hugh Morton

Hugh Manning

June Ellis

Keith Marsh

James Culliford

Roger Avon

Brian Peck

John Graham

Charles Lamb

David Savile

William Ellis

Gareth Thomas

Elroy Josephs

Michael Poole

Albert Shepherd

Roy Beck

Arthur Grant

Nigel Kneale

Roy Ward Baker

Les Bowie

Tristram Cary

Anthony Nelson Keys

Roy Hyde

Irene Lamb

Kenneth Ryan

Moray Grant

Philip Martell

Pearl Tipaldi

Bernard Robinson

Ian Lewis

Bert Batt

Spencer Reeve

Doreen Dearnaley

Rosemary Burrows

James Needs

Michael Morris

Sash Fisher

Science Fiction

Horror

Mystery

Quatermass and the Pit

Hammer Film Productions

United Kingdom

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

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