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Bolstered by Roy Ward Baker's sublime direction, Arthur Grant's luscious photography, gorgeous effects and effective score by Tristram Cary, Quatermass and the Pit is a genuinely harrowing...
Quatermass and the Pit: Directed by Roy Ward Baker. With James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover. A mysterious artifact is unearthed in London, and famous scientist Bernard Quatermass is called in to divine its origins and explain its strange effects on people.
- (12K)
- Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Roy Ward Baker
- 1968-02-07
Oct 5, 2023 · Quatermass and the Pit is the last of Hammer's three Quatermass films and is usually regarded as the best. The film stars Andrew Keir as the renowned Professor Bernard Quatermass, this time investigating a mysterious object uncovered during excavations at Hobbs End station on the London Underground.
Quatermass and the Pit is a genuinely great screenplay, one of the smartest sci-fi films ever written because it deals with interesting ideas rather than stock effects.
Quatermass and the Pit (US title: Five Million Years to Earth) is a 1967 British science fiction horror film from Hammer Film Productions. [2] It is a sequel to the earlier Hammer films The Quatermass Xperiment and Quatermass 2.
Quatermass and the Pit melds science fiction with metaphysics, superstition and mythology. Mostly it’s done well, especially for its era and considering that the movie is intended as horror. Very mild horror by today’s standards. Think Doctor Who, which is a family show. Quatermass and the Pit has plot
Quatermass And The Pit is a tale filled with creeping fear. It takes a while to build, but that makes it all the harder to guard against. The science fiction plot is subtly developed and not - if you're a newcomer - what you might expect, but it's the underlying themes that have the real power.
