Brad Pitt is really, really good in this movie. He's trying and failing to keep himself centered in the middle of all this horror and you're afraid he's going to fall off the edge.
Who knew Kevin Spacey could be so creepy?
< strangled laughter >
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Five Million Years to Earth (aka Quatermass and the Pit), dir. by Roy Ward Baker (1967)
Third, and unquestionably best, movie featuring redoubtable British scientist Bernard Quatermass, as he once again protects the world from potentially dangerous extraterrestrial phenomena.
This was a rare foray into science fiction for Hammer studios, but it still managed to elicit chills, as an excavation project at a London subway finds something ancient and inhuman--and waiting to be revived.
Hammer veteran Andrew Kier is a 1000% improvement as Quatermass (over gravel-voiced Yank Brian Donleavy in the first two movies), and a host of great British character actors (led by Barbara Shelley) lend top support. SFX are.... pretty crappy, but the screenplay by series creator Nigel Kneale never talks down to the audience, and the mass freak out finale is still pretty amazing, even after 50 years.
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Who knew Kevin Spacey could be so creepy?
< strangled laughter >
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Five Million Years to Earth (aka Quatermass and the Pit), dir. by Roy Ward Baker (1967)
Third, and unquestionably best, movie featuring redoubtable British scientist Bernard Quatermass, as he once again protects the world from potentially dangerous extraterrestrial phenomena.
This was a rare foray into science fiction for Hammer studios, but it still managed to elicit chills, as an excavation project at a London subway finds something ancient and inhuman--and waiting to be revived.
Hammer veteran Andrew Kier is a 1000% improvement as Quatermass (over gravel-voiced Yank Brian Donleavy in the first two movies), and a host of great British character actors (led by Barbara Shelley) lend top support. SFX are.... pretty crappy, but the screenplay by series creator Nigel Kneale never talks down to the audience, and the mass freak out finale is still pretty amazing, even after 50 years.
Proto X-Files? Could be! Highly recommended.
https://youtu.be/v5xPvFjPhkQ