Hammer Time

Rented 'Quatermass and the Pit' on DVD. Top! On DVD the film looks like it was made yesterday, but because it was made in the swinging sixties it looked super-cool. All the men dress like men (tweed and pipes) and all the women dress like women (tweed, cigerettes)(actually mini-skirts and the sort of make up that says 'I know it was tested in animals and I don't care).

What was amazing though was the real sense of menace conveyed in the film. Stroke of genius setting it in and around a tube station. Those places are bloody eerie at the best of times, but when you're unearthing aliens, it's almost as bad as being trapped in a tunnel with a busker, and a cheerful busker at that.

I am tempted to take up a pipe, grow an beard and speak to everyone in an upper class accent that would cut teak - it gets results!