My take: Horror meets science fiction in this Hammer horror classic.
Rating: 3 out of 4 stars
When science fiction and horror combine, terrifying things can happen. You never know what might happen next when the rules are being broken and boundaries pushed.
For this reason, science fiction horror has always been one of my favorite subgenres. Aliens, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and The Fly are just a few of the frightening tales that come from this combination. The Quatermass Xperiment and Quatermass and the Pit also stand out as an excellent examples of this.
Quatermass and the Pit takes place in London’s present day, present day being 1967. While digging to expand an Underground station, workers discover skulls and bones. The archeologists step in and find something even more interesting, an artifact that the first assume is a bomb. But it turns out to be so much more.
Poster for Quatermass and the Pit.
It’s got aliens, it’s got ancient skulls, and it’s got a theory for the creation of man that is downright scary.
If you like science fiction horror, watch this movie. I would also recommend it to fans of classic science fiction and fans of Hammer horror films.
I watched it online on YouTube. Here’s the trailer:
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