Quatermass And The Pit (DVD)

Based on a TV serial of the same name, 1955's "The Quatermass Xperiment" is often considered to be the first proper Hammer horror, the studio that would go on to make big names of Peter Cushing and Christoper Lee. "The Quatermass Xperiment" was derided by the serial's original creator for its casting of the American Brian Donlevy in the title role, but yet he still returned for the bigger budget and better sequel "Quatermass 2" two years later. It would be ten years before Hammer got their grubby mits on a third Quatermass serial, and with it came the art of colour film-making as well as a brand new star as Bernard ...  Read the complete review

This film was made in 1967...it's now 2008 and so I thought it about time I watched the darned thing! To be honest I wasn't expecting much. I have read and heard much praise but being a lover of all things horror and science fiction I tend to be a little disappointed when lead by other people's opinions. However in this case I was pleasantly surprised. The story revolves around the discovery of a mysterious object during renovations of the London Underground at the fictional station "Hobb's End". Without spoiling the plot this necessitates the arrival of the Army Bomb Disposal Squad along with a pacifist professor, his assistants and an ...  Read the complete review

A really enjoyable piece of British shock-sci-fi that cleverly mixes horror, science and alien invasion into 60's Britain. Actually it feels more like 50's Britain as there are no 'hippies' or Bless This House deocr in the film at all, which gives the film a more timeless setting and appeal - and why it has dated so well. When scientists find remains of humans as well as a spaceship underneath an underground station, strange things start to happen. Is the spaceship and its strange alien creatures part of an invasion fleet or did the 'martians' have more of an impact into human development than we might like to think. Quatermass and the Pit cleverly manages to ...  Read the complete review

The residents of Hobbs Lane are being disturbed by noises and such and have largely moved out. Professor Quatermas comes to investigate and comes to the conclusion that large numbers of the inhabitants of earth are descendant from giant locust-like Martians (explains the fat bodies, I suppose). It ends in the Martian descendants trying to wipe out the few remaining Earth descendants and ultimate destruction of the Martians. Takes you through the discoveries nicely. Watch it. ...  Read the complete review

This film is proof, if proof were needed, that a ludicrous story does not mean a film can't be both entertaining and scary. The story revolves around the discovery of an alien spaceship buried in the ground in the London Underground. Dead locust-looking creatures are discovered inside and things take an even odder turn, when the venerable Professor Quatermass, played by ever reliable Andrew Keir, realises that the space ship has been there since ancient times...who are the true earthlings? Man or the creatures? What's more...the space craft...or it's long dead occupents, seem to have a psychic power over certain people... ...  Read the complete review