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Date Posted: 02:02:42 08/17/11 Wed
Author: Rick
Subject: Favorite moments in Hammer's "Quatermass" series

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[> Re: Favorite moments in Hammer's "Quatermass" series -- Officer Torch, 08:51:50 08/17/11 Wed [1]

Here's a few from a '67 Quatermass flick which I watch now and then. It goes under 2 titles, Quatermass and the Pit in UK, and Five Million Years to Earth in US. Sometimes hard or costly to get on dvd itself; can get though in a Hammer dvd pack, or VHS reasonably. It seems to have collectible and/or cult like status! In UK, there was a Quatermass TV series, and a couple low budget movies there prior to this 1967 gem.

Some of my favorite moments from this movie include:

-The pretty much modern settings of the day and the brilliant scifi/horror concepts involved, also good acting in this film. Decent special effects for the period.

-Workmen trying (unsuccessfully) to drill thru the tough missle like object in the London Underground. The ambience, human like skulls, skeletons, the general feeling in the tube station, and fleeing when the creatures are seemingly awakened.

-The resulting havoc, noise, chaos from the excavation of the Martian missle. The thought projections, riots.

-Mental images of the eerie, locust demon-like creatures. Well, they're kind of B movie types, but overall concept/story can make viewer let it go. Besides, story can be more complex than it initially seems. Mutiple concepts involved. Thought provoking, good scifi/horror.

*SPOILER BELOW
*-An electrical image of evil as Dr. Roney (James Donald)winds up riding a metal crane, sadly to his doom, into the devil-like...well, thing to apparently discharge/destroy it from its rampaging.

-This flick depicted insect like creatures from Mars planted here long ago. Movie is a mix of scifi, horror, drama, religious thoughts, and hokum also, but a colorful, widescreen, non CG entertaining film, addictive with repeated watchings, kinda like Flash Gordon in a way. Note:the film is not close captioned or sub titled.


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