How many threads like this have there been?
Okay, I saw this movie on TV a couple of times when I was growing up, mid to late 1960’s. It was a British film, in color.
There’s some work being done in a subway tunnel. After digging something is uncovered, but it’s metal. A guard or watchman, left there during the night, goes crazy when something from inside the structure “wakes up” That’s the best way I can describe what happens. Near the end of the movie scientists figure out how to watch some kind of recording from the vessel, and you see a fuzzy picture of a crowd of creatures that look kind of like grasshoppers or praying mantis. a giant ghostly figure of the same kind of creature appears above ground and the lead character sacrifices himself to destroy it. I don’t remember the means except he was on a tall crane or something, putting him on a level with the head of the creature.
That’s it. For the kid I was then it was kind of scary, and I’m wondering what it would feel like now that I’m so much older. If you can help figure out what movie this might be I’d sure appreciate it.