In spite of the television serials" popularity, the Quatermass Hammer films had an even more impactful influence on culture, especially abroad and in the US. "The likes of Stephen King, Joe Dante, John Landis and Dan O"Bannon grew up watching them and adored them," Murray suggests. "There"s what looks suspiciously like a nod to the Quatermass and the Pit film at the climax of Steven Spielberg"s Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). In Mexico, Guillermo del Toro was first exposed to Nigel Kneale though the Quatermass films too."