Review of Quatermass and the Pit (1967) by Roberto R — 09 Jan 2008
This used to be on all the time when I was a kid. This is probably the best film of the BBC television series Quatermass and the last Quatermass film made by Hammer films.
Aspects of it are really creepy. The dialogue keeps the film going as the aliens are really just supernatural beings who have been dead for thousands of years, we only see their remains. There are religious overtones as the creatures look like horned devils or giant locusts and are recognized through history by the scienctist, as references to the devil on cave paintings. These Martians, have a physic hold on humans. They have lay buried for thousands of years until the aliens craft has been uncovered in a London underground station.
Prof. Bernard Quatermass played by Andrew Keir is the stuffy old professor, gruff in manner and not your sort of hero you have come to recognise in films. There is no love interest with Barbara Shelley, she isn�t used in any subplots within the film to show romance. You have the usual heads knocking together between the scientists and the military played with cold authority by an excellent Julian Glover. Who dismisses the aliens as Nazi propaganda from the 2nd world war. As the journalist and television stations are invited to see for themselves, then all hell breaks lose.
The cinema photography is very clear and bright with the colors; it is a wonderful looking film.
This review of Quatermass and the Pit (1967) was written by Roberto R on 09 Jan 2008.
Quatermass and the Pit has generally received positive reviews.
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