Quatermass And The Pit (1967) - HPL

[@adriansherlockdamondark.1094]

Proof that powerful ideas and solid storytelling can blast everything else off the screen, even with a modest budget and simple effects.

[@shadovanish7435]

Might as well just read a book. In most cases, books are considered better than their movie adaptations, anyway. I would agree. But many movies (I don't know if this one was based on a book), like this one, are very good, even with a modest budget. It seems most modern science fiction movies are focused toward a large effects budget, with a story line as only an after thought, & so they don't hold my interest. I saw this movie when I was about 7 years old, & still think it's quite good, mainly for the plot & acting, but the effects were decent also, in my opinion.

[@kinsmansteve]

@@shadovanish7435 No, it wasn't based on a book. It was based on an earlier BBC serial (mini series) by Nigel Neale. Although it has a smaller budget and is in black & white, in some ways the BBC version is better.

[@whouster]

Yes, the quality of the story, the acting, the atmosphere etc. more than make up for the small budget. I would also recommend the original BBC TV serial from 1958. Black and white, even smaller budget, but just as brilliant. The serial is twice as long as the film, and gives the eerie atmosphere even more time to develop. The standout moment from the TV serial was when the Martian arthropods are discovered, and they're terrifyingly realistic. Must've scared the hell out of 1950s viewers, and it's famously renowned in the UK as one the scariest TV programmes ever made.

[@rogerlynch5279]

And that years before von Däniken became popular with his books about prehistorical Astronauts. I thought the full version done by the British had been better as the later cut movie version

[@andrewwilliams2353]

I went to the cinema to see this when I was a young teenager. It scared the crap out of me then and I feel its power to frighten even all these years later. They don't come much better than this

[@bigmandrel]

Saw this with my dad at home when I was about 10 yo back in '72 on our new Philco color TV. Exceptionally I was allowed to stay up late for the movie after our Hamburger Helper meal. The projection of the locust/Satan head scared the beans out of me. Movie stuck with me all these years.

[@MelloGee33]

The script/storyline/plot of this movie is an absolute masterpiece that was well-composed, well put together, thought-out, intelligent, thought-provoking and atmospheric as hell.

[@Rickwmc]

This movie is a perfect example of a great film done on a small budget. The actors are top notch, the dialogue is superb and the story is fascinating. The movie generates tension that builds up until it's unbearable. If you want to get a good scare, this movie is it.

[@wilmanric2277]

British actors are trained for the stage. It's why they are so good....

[@CaminoAir]

Also, the production design is great. Especially the London Underground set and the Martian spaceship design. The Martians themselves did look better in the BBC TV series though.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

@ Wil manric They WERE trained for the stage at that time. Years in Rep before moving to screen. That's why we had a couple of generations of great screen actors through 70s and 80s. That system no longer exists I'm afraid. Can you really imagine a re-make of this with a cast of our present crop ...? ! ?

[@terrypierce6817]

I love the Foley guy. That machine coming to life sounds fantastic. Brilliant!!

[@babygretz5]

one of the best horror films ever..

[@londonroulette]

Cult classic. Everything about this film is so good. I’m lucky enough to of got on DVD. 1967 I believe. Saw as a kid and still now is one of my all time fav movies

[@roisindubh02]

This movie scared the hell out of me as a kid.

[@flybobbie1449]

Always left an impression, reason why i am looking it up now after all these years.

[@xyrzmxyzptlk1186]

Me too. 👺

[@joelzenny]

The last scene in the film when the crane destroys the "demon" has been burned into my bran for 50+ years. I was a child when I saw it on TV with my parents. It was only recently that I discovered that this was the film that scene was from.

[@nearlyretired7005]

I'm 58,it still does!

[@cherubycarilla7523]

yes, me too. terrifying.

[@neilmaguire1444]

A total classic, Dr Who for grown ups.

[@dav7444]

One of the best Sci-fi films ever made

[@lisasimmons5362]

Absolute masterpiece !!! Even though I was in my late 20s when I first saw this phenomenal movie, it deeply frightened me. Such a brilliantly disturbing film with utterly top-notch acting, dialogue, directing, etc.

[@primus7776]

The Beautiful Barbara Shelley was great in this. She also played Medusa, The Gorgon with consummate skill. Scared the living crap out of me when I was a kid.

[@SirManfly]

me too! seeing that entity rise up at the end of this clip still makes my hair stand up !

[@dougbrowne9890]

This was Barbara's last Hammer film. Such a beautiful and wonderful actress.

[@tsarbomba1]

Sound design on this was fantastic.

[@dcanmore]

Love this movie, scared me as a kid. Great sound design.

[@roverchap]

One of the best sci-fi horror films ever, from a great writer teaming up with the best of British horror movie houses. The not entirely original idea that extra-terrestrials had visited earth long ago is given a fascinating twist with the notion that the visitors had altered the course of human development as a proxy method of contuning their own existence. How that retained memory and inate powers (which have become known as 'evil') can be reawakened is the central theme of this supreme piece of cinema.

[@stevenappleman]

This movie had me mesmerized as a kid!

[@SciHeartJourney]

This is one of my favorite movies ever!

[@stevenkaeser8583]

This was originally a serial program on BBC TV in the 50’s and the movie followed. Quatarmass is also in two other British movie productions.

[@bobyounger6109]

Great film. Thanks.

[@BrowneyedDiva]

I love this movie!

[@happyshopper1806]

A classic film

[@nosuchthing8]

Love the pink floyd ish sounds

[@RobXHEphotosPs37.29]

Breen was toast!

[@Inflec]

Yeah That's what happens when you spend too much time in those tanning booths. 🤣

[@mark140]

Classic scene

[@jacquelynejohnson9127]

With people in the town I'm moving out of tomorrow, people has shot killed poisoned and stabed people's animals, I kept thinking of this movie clip , and I thought of it today when a report came that someone tried to steal a neighbor dog by putting it up over a fence, The line from the movie stuck with me about they were killing the animals, and that ghostly Hob head rises up and even at the age of 60 ,it still looks scary!

[@jackthebassman1]

I watched the original series in safety-behind the sofa.

[@davidrodwell7968]

Me to, as an eleven year old clinging on to my twin sister. Absolutely fascinated by it all

[@malcolmroberts7619]

Another great movie you can’t find

[@hootinouts]

The scene where that demonic apparition pops up out of the destroyed building is creepy. I saw this movie way back in the late 70's and that scene has always stuck with me.

[@CybershamanX]

(1:11) I have a theory that Colonel Breen (the officer that gets, well, essentially melted were he stood) is being used by the alien entities as a physical conduit that allows them to manifest as the giant "horned being" that appears later on. Just a thought. 😉

[@trinab9612]

Crazy movie.

[@darkone666]

Classic

[@RichardHowie]

I cant find this movie anywhere.

[@lynnwallis8654]

can't seem to find this film anywhere now, how does one rent it???

[@narimenrhodes-zh7tr]

When is KZbin going to make this movie available?? Also, WHY won't hollywood and 20th century studios remake this story AND When Worlds Collide??? Are we running out of time or something?🥳

[@jacquelynejohnson9127]

Scary still They don't make movies like they used to----

[@ianbentley7276]

On Talking Pictures tonight at 9pm 26/12/18

[@fleondodgen]

I’ll tell you the end loss of two minutes. (Spoiler) Quatermass gets the girl standing next to him as they both continue breathing heavily gathering their strength and composures thinking sadly about his friend, who climbs up a high tower crane to make it unbalanced so the end glided into the evil and GROUNDED it, as he and Quartermass both discovered how to destroy it.

[@videomaker783]

Best sci fi film

[@bobyounger6109]

There’s only one film that has had a very bad effect on me, THE EXORCIST 1972 tore me apart from inside out.

[@ussling]

Where, oh where can I get this DVD for region 1?

[@robhaskins]

www.amazon.com/Quatermass-Pit-Blu-ray-Andrew-Keir/dp/B07NNMJK3J/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=quatermass+and+the+pit&qid=1581565288&sr=8-1

[@lynnquin8565]

I have a Region 2 copy. Found it on Amazon UK several years ago.

[@ussling]

@@lynnquin8565 I eventually found this movie on a Region 1 DVD on eBay. What a good movie.

[@nosuchthing8]

Why did it kill Breen? He was helping it all along.

[@rickkenny4926]

The Martian entity just used him, like all the other thousands of genetically altered human..

[@davidwayne9982]

I just want to know why it got BANNED????

[@alexalex13131]

Somewhat similar to 2001 but doesn't hold back in spelling out the ending.

[@clovelly1946]

I cant find the complete film..??

[@vernonsiple7062]

Me either...bummer.

[@SpotlessLeopard]

Possibly Putlockers.

[@zam6877]

No doN't fIgHt it...liSTen To tHE buG!

[@serenedambrisi2536]

Where can we watch this

[@rogerlynch5279]

From the cut movie version there is a DVD around. The complete British Miniseries, done in at least three parts is harder to come by.

[@malcolmroberts7619]

Where can I find it

[@oldboy5001]

You can buy it on Amazon at the moment, if you're in the Uk.

[@r.blakehole932]

5 minutes of a whole film. Really?