The third and best of the Quatermass films.
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05/14/08
Quatermass and the Pit (1967)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:6
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.2/10
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Workers renovating the London Underground discover what they at first take to be an unexploded World War II bomb. On closer inspection it turns out to be a great deal more mysterious - a spaceship,... [More]
Starring: James Donald, Barbara Shelley, Andrew Keir, Julian Glover
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Reviews for Quatermass and the Pit
1 - 8 (sorted by date)
Routine, somewhat distended development blunts impact of this British-made programmer.
05/14/08
Top CriticOne of the high points of Hammer's film production, and a worthy addition to the cannon of films and TV realisations of the products of Nigel Kneale's probing, prescient imagination.
05/14/08
The brilliant pre-Von Daniken anthropological theme of Kneale's script still guarantees interest.
06/24/06
All of its pseudo-scientific talk seemed to short-circuit the audience's interest -- in it and in themselves.
05/21/05
Top CriticNo review available.
04/07/05
This is a movie with, to be blunt, a twenty-dollar budget -- but billion-dollar ideas.
11/07/02
One of the few truly great sci-fi thrillers
08/07/02
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