- Hobbs End
Hobbs End is the name of a fictional location used in several works of
speculative fiction . Its name is possibly intended to convey a sense of unease, evil, or "wrongness", since "Hob" is an old nickname for thedevil .Hobbs Lane / Hobbs End tube station
The 1958
BBC science fiction television serial "Quatermass and the Pit " centered around the discovery of alien artifacts uncovered during the construction of a new office block at the fictional street location Hobbs Lane (once called 'Hob's Lane', from an old sign seen) inKnightsbridge , SW1,London . The serial also mentioned strange events taking place in 1927, when the fictional Hobbs "Lane" underground station was built.When the serial was adapted into a film (also titled "Quatermass and the Pit") in 1967, the London Underground system was being extended with the construction of the
Victoria Line . Accordingly, the producers of the movie decided to change the setting to the construction of the fictional Hobbs "End" underground station, a fictional extension of theCentral Line . This revision has been attributed toAnthony Hinds , the son of Hammer Films co-founderWill Hammer . A street nameplate shows Hobbs Lane to be in the W10 postal district.
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In the 1995 movie "
In the Mouth of Madness ", apastiche ofH. P. Lovecraft directed byJohn Carpenter , Hobbs End is the name of aNew England town in the books of fictional horror author Sutter Cane, "this century's most widely-read author". As parts of Sutter Cane's stories start to influence reality, Hobbs End also becomes real, and is the setting for much of the action in the movie. Carpenter had previously worked withNigel Kneale , creator of the Quatermass character, on ""; and has also used thepseudonym 'Martin Quatermass'.Hobbs End is also used as the name of a village in the 1999 Peter Robinson book "
In a Dry Season "."Hobbs End" is both the title of, and Pacific northwest setting for, a 2002
slasher film directed byPhilip Segal . It received uniformly below-average reviews.The town at the centre of the British 2007 horror film "Flick" is also called Hobbs End.
A similar name crops up in the 1971 "
Doctor Who " serial "The Dæmons ", which is set in the fictionalWiltshire village of Devil's End. The plot of "The Dæmons" bears several similarities to that of "Quatermass and the Pit".ee also
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List of fictional rapid transit stations External links
* [http://www.quatermass.org.uk Quatermass.org.uk - Nigel Kneale & Quatermass Appreciation Site]
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