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Overall Rank: 6252
Average Rating: 2.7/4
# of Ratings: 19
Theatrical Release Date: 02/16/1968
Language: English
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Actors: James Donald, Andrew Keir, Barbara Shelley, Julian Glover, Duncan Lamont, Bryan Marshall
Plot: Quatermass is the name of a scientist, a caracter in a series of sci-fi movies, and "Quatermass and the Pit" is a story about ancient invaders. Invaders that came from mars and are discovered accidentaly in the present days when digging for a railway station. Insect like creatures, with telekinetic powers for a grave danger. -- travincal
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1.5/4
Indyfreak - wrote on 05/11/2023
Andrew Keir is utterly convincing as the capable but concerned scientist Bernard Quatermass who investigates the excavation of an ancient spacecraft in present-day London. He raises above and beyond this material and makes it almost work. But the movie is not that interesting once it makes its big reveal. It doesn't help that the special effects are pretty hokey. Conceptually, the premise that aliens had been influencing human evolution is a good start and that modern day problems such as war or racism are a just a byproduct of that secret influence is forward thinking for a genre film at this time. It's too bad the movie really is not that scary or even exciting.
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