Friday, 23 January 2015

The Pits

Quatermass and the Pit (1967)

Directed by Roy Ward Baker this film based on the television series of the same name stars James Donald, Andrew Keir and Barbara Shelley. Workmen digging at a London underground station find lots of bodies and a strange metal craft from millions of years ago.

This whole film comes off like a cheap knock off of a classic Doctor Who episode but with out an enigmatic Doctor Who to hold the thing together. Character development is pretty much non existent as we plunge into a plot full of hogwash about aliens from Mars. Where the film really falls down though is in the special effects which at times are beyond cheap and really do not hold together.


2/5

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