Quatermass and The Pit Trailer

 


I caught this classic horror film on TV the other night, and it had been a long while since I last watched it. So long in fact that I saw new things in the films plot that had originally past me by. I guess Im a different person since I last watched it...
  Basically the film is about a scientist who discovers a buried vessel, or metal cocoon . The site in London where its discovered  turns out to have had an ancient reputation for hauntings, and the unexplained. Inside the craft a symbol of a pentagram  is even discovered !
  It all appears to be an occult event then ? Well no, it  turns out to be all alien, and Professor Quatermass suggests that hauntings, the paranormal or sightings of demons seen at the crash site all throughout  history are due to the side effects of  people having been living at too close a quarters to the buried alien craft.
  The alien idea for explaining occult happenings also turns up in many H.P Lovecraft stories. In fact ive just this week furnished reading " The Lurker on the Threshold " which finishes up at such a conclusion. I dont have a particular view either way, but its an interesting idea, and like so many on this blog its un-provable ! Are altered perceptions the result of an extra outside presence on earth ? Its impossible to argue against and rarely put forward, even in the world of films.