Fast Slow
Dark Light
U
Unrated
Quatermass and the Pit
Horror, Science Fiction
A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London Underground station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy intellectually serious horror that builds from archaeological mystery into existential dread and mass psychological terror.
- Tone
- eerie, cerebral, dread
- Payoff
- unease, revelation
- Pacing
- slow-burn
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- human evolution, extraterrestrial influence, collective violence, scientific skepticism
- Setting
- mid-twentieth-century, subterranean transit station and crowded city streets