Though it’s a bit stagey in places, the film...hits on something meaningful in the way that it uses 18th Century social conventions to address to the discomfort and hypocrisy of a subsequent age.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Though it’s a bit stagey in places, the film...hits on something meaningful in the way that it uses 18th Century social conventions to address to the discomfort and hypocrisy of a subsequent age.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Patrick Troughton turns in a splendidly OTT performance as the titular count's loony servant.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Patrick Troughton turns in a splendidly OTT performance as the titular count's loony servant.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Quatermass And The Pit is a tale filled with creeping fear.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Quatermass And The Pit is a tale filled with creeping fear.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Gives the sense that humans are almost incidental in the battle between a man-made Titan and a force of nature.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Gives the sense that humans are almost incidental in the battle between a man-made Titan and a force of nature.

~ Jennie Kermode -

Excels in not taking itself too seriously while offering a refreshingly imaginative collection of adventures.

~ Merlin Harries -

Excels in not taking itself too seriously while offering a refreshingly imaginative collection of adventures.

~ Merlin Harries -