Quatermass and the Pit (1967)

Workers renovating the London Underground discover what they at first take to be an unexploded World War II bomb. On closer inspection it turns out to be a great deal more mysterious - a spaceship, millions of years old, bearing the fossilized bodies of dead aliens. Professor Quatermass, unconventional science expert, is brought in to bring to light this disturbing discovery, which turns out to have unforeseen effects on the local populace. One of the best of the science fiction films produced by Hammer in the 1960s, QUATERMASS AND THE PIT is a true sci-fi mindbender.

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Nigel Kneale's Quatermass TV series spawned a brief film series produced over an eleven-year period; 1967's Quatermass and the Pit, released in the US as Five Million Years to Earth, was the third and (until 1979's Quatermass Conclusion) last of the features. As with previous chapters in the Kneale saga, the film begins with a baffling scientific discovery. This time it's an alien ship, alive after 5,000,000 years, discovered during the excavation of a new subway line. The craft is able to cause psychic disturbances in individuals genetically connected to the machine; it also prompts them to see dead Martians as...
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ghostly entitites nearby. In time, conclusions drawn from these events lead scientists to shocking conclusions about the origins of the human race.
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An alien spaceship is discovered buried beneath a London subway station, but it's protected by an energy field which unleashes a terrifying monster on the streets of the city.

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Terwijl er een nieuwe gang wordt gegraven voor de Metro, ondekken de arbeiders, eerst een geraamte en dan iets waarvan zij denken dat het een Duitse raket is uit de 2e wereldoorlog. Na betere bestudering van de raket blijkt deze niet van de aarde afkomstig te komen.

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