Quatermass and the Pit
by Roy Ward Baker
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Actor: Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Duncan Lamont, James Donald, Julian GloverDirector: Roy Ward Baker
Cinematographer: Arthur Grant
Editor: Spencer Reeve
Producer: Anthony Nelson Keys
Writer: Nigel Kneale
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.66:1
Running Time: 97 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-10-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
DVD Reviews of Quatermass and the Pit
DVD Review: Great old sci-fi flick
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a terriffic old sci-fi flick that you will see from time-to-time on Turner Classic Movies. The movie is titled 5 Million Years to Earth when it shows on Turner. If you want to find it for around $20, go to Movies Unlimited on the internet.
I can still remember seeing this for the first time and being impressed with how well the British can do this sort of thing, even on what must have been a low budget. The acting is impressive and you will get caught up in the plot, believe me. Buy it!
DVD Review: Brilliant British Sci-Fi -- Second to none!
Summary: 5 Stars
Top-quality British science fiction, second to none -- the scene where Barbara Steele implores Professor Quatermass to read the photocopies of old newspaper articles she's discovered is simply perfect...
If there is a more ambitious or a more fully-realized British science fiction movie available, I am unaware of it...
DVD Review: Our Ancestors Were Cockroaches?!
Summary: 5 Stars
"Quatermass and the Pit" is the most exciting science fiction/horror hybrid I've seen from Hammer Productions. The plot is intricate, exciting and thought provoking; it offers extremely unique theories of man's origin on earth.
Professor Quatermass (Andrew Keir of "Dracula: Prince of Darkness") is investigating what first appears to be an unexploded bomb found during the construction of a subway line. Upon further examination, he learns that it is an alien spacecraft that is over five million years old. The identity of its crewmembers is quite disturbing. Worse of all, the spacecraft appears to have a life of its own. Pandemonium breaks out in London as the spacecraft takes possession of men's bodies and souls, turning them into killing machines that can't be stopped.
"Quatermass and the Pit" is a must have for everyone who owns a collection of science fiction and/or Hammer Production classics. I could not afford to purchase the one from Anchor Bay; instead I bought the one released by Optimum Classic, which is NTSC Region 1, from Britain. The audio and video are great. It is presented in Widescreen; the menu has a trailer but no scene selection. I have downloaded photos of the DVD jacket and disc.
DVD Review: sticks to your brain
Summary: 4 Stars
I can't believe I found this. I watched this film on a Saturday afternoon TV as a child in the early 1970s--5 Million Years to Earth. It intrigued me and scared me more than any other film I have seen before or since. My pre-teen brain was modified permanently by the scene where the evil is released from the spaceship and spreads through the tunnels and then creeps up to the surface. I think this is a great film. Judging from the other reviews, it just may be. I am keen to buy this, watch it, and face my childhood fears.DVD Review: Classic Sci-fi does not dissappoint
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this movie as kid due to my Dad's penchant for sci-fi, which I have now inherited. He's not here anymore to ask so I went looking and finally discovered the movie title and purchased it. What a treat. However, I wouldn't recommend it to those who don't appreciate what classic sci-fi is all about. The story is intriguing and it unfolds in very well-crafted manner. The acting is sometimes a bit overdone but blends in with the overall urgency of the plot. Lots of loose ends are not explained but enough are to be satisfactory and even with the limited special effects, there's and eeriness about the music and the alien design work that is still quite effective. If the original series fill in more of the details (or maybe a book version?) it would probably rate as a top notch sci-fi piece. Hollywood did a good job of bringing the effect to screen if not the complete storyline.
Description of Quatermass and the Pit
We have met the enemy, and it is us: when a Martian spacecraft with a terrifying link to the origins of humanity is unearthed beneath a London tube station, only the esteemed Professor Bernard Quatermass (a very British--and possibly mad--precursor to Mulder and Scully) can save London's suddenly murderous population from itself. One of the most intelligently paranoid science fiction films ever produced, this pessimistic masterpiece functions as a dark flip side to the relatively optimistic alien-induced evolution theory presented in the later 2001: A Space Odyssey. Nigel Kneale's brilliant script (which posits a surprisingly plausible, otherworldly rationale for the existence of the supernatural) was later appropriated by acknowledged fan John Carpenter for his underrated Prince of Darkness. In addition to boasting a flawless widescreen print, this marvelous tape also features a hilariously overdone original U.S. trailer ("Women will be defiled by the invaders from outer space!" it erroneously shrieks). A must-see for horror and science fiction aficionados. This film is also known as Five Million Years to Earth. --Andrew WrightGeneral DVDs
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