Scream Factory announced today that it is moving the street dates of its upcoming Blu-ray releases of
Quatermass and the Pit and
Quatermass 2 from May 14 to July 30.
The reason for the delay is explained in the following message from the label:
" Unfortunately, we ran into some unexpected issues with the film transfers. We're confident that PIT will be fine but QUATERMASS II is going to require some more digging into. While working on our new transfer from the elements provided, we found the last two reels were too damaged to move forward. We are currently looking for another film element and will keep you posted of our progress.
Thank you for your understanding and stay tuned for developments."
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Quatermass and the Pit
Synopsis: Hobbs End, Knightsbridge, London. While working on a new subway tunnel for the London Underground, a group of construction workers uncover a strangely shaped skull. Nearby, another discovery: a large, mysterious and impenetrable metal object. Initially mistaken for an unexploded bomb, the object and its strange power turn out to be far more horrific than anybody could have possibly imagined. Is it of this earth? Could it be the ancestral link to mankind's evolution? Or could it be an ancient link to the unleashing of the ultimate evil? There's only one man capable of unravelling the clues, and his name is Professor Bernard Quatermass (Andrew Keir), a man of science who thrives on the dark mysteries of the world ...
Written by legendary screenwriter Nigel Kneale, Quatermass And The Pit is a seminal British sci-fi classic. For its U.S. release by 20th Century Fox, the film was retitled Five Million Years To Earth.
Quatermass 2
Synopsis: Professor Quatermass returns in this sequel to The Quatermass Xperiment!
Quatermass 2 is the second and most talked about of the three science fiction stories written by Nigel Kneale and based on his critically acclaimed 1955 BBC series.
Professor Quatermass, played by Hollywood veteran Brian Donlevy reprising his role from The Quatermass Xperiment, is Britain's most clever scientist. Investigating a series of bizarre incidents that have been reported from a deserted area, he finds a group of soldiers and government officials that appear to be controlled by aliens from another world. When a close friend is brutally murdered by these beings, Quatermass leads a mob of local workers to a showdown with the extraterrestrials. The film was retitled Enemy From Space for its U.S. theatrical release.