My parents have been telling me about this movie for years.
I was thrilled to get a chance to actually watch it. Technically this is the
third movie in the British Quatermass trilogy, but you don’t need to see the
other two movies in the franchise to make sense of this one. I still haven’t
seen the other two and don’t know if I want to. In this science fiction horror
film, the British government is trying to build a new underground through a
“haunted” part of London. There have been sightings of weird things here for
centuries, from before there even was a London. The tunnel workers find a bunch
of primordial men and what appears to be a spaceship. Of course the government
wants to dismiss it as some sort of WWII propaganda. It’s either an unexploded
bomb or something the Germans cooked up to demoralize the British population.
It’s only Quartermass and his associates that figure out that the device is in
fact far far earlier than 20 years (try about 5 million years) and if they
don’t do something a horror will be released on London far more deadly than it
has ever known.
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