Classic Monsters of the Movies' authors Nige Burton, Jamie Jones and John (Penny Dreadful/Gladiator) Logan turn to Hammer's Quatermass series, with its third, adapted entry, 1967's Quatermass and the Pit (aka Five Million Years to Earth).
The Martian-oriented thriller is tense, sophisticated and creepy, first revealing the fossils of anthropoids dug from out a subterranean sector, later to unveil a strange vessel, inside which are preserved, insectoids with a telekinetic draw. What was (is) the creatures' intent? The answers are part of what makes Quatermass and the Pit so fascinating and unsettling.
The in-depth text covers the movie's making, beginning with the 1958-1959, BBC miniseries to its development as a big-screen, color sequel to Hammer's prior, Brian Dunlevy-led set, The Quatermass Xperiment (The Creeping Unknown) and Quatermass II (Enemy From Space).
The third chapter's mastermind and Professor Bernard Quatermass' creator, writer Nigel Kneale, and its skillful director, Roy Ward (Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde/Scars of Dracula) Baker, are supported by their standout cast, with Andrew Kier in the titular role, reuniting with his Dracula: Prince of Darkness costar, Barbara Shelley, along with James Donald, Julian Glover, Edwin Richfield, Grant Taylor, Duncan Lamont, Peter Copley and Bryan Marshall.
Plentiful trivia and quotes bracket this superb "ultimate edition," establishing it as a reference guide to treasure. It's so fulfilling that I'm hoping Classic Monsters will now jump back and detail the prior, Hammer, Quatermass chapters.
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