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The Quatermass Xperiment

Science Fiction · Horror

The Quatermass Xperiment

You Can't Escape It!

6.5(233) 9/26/1955 1h 22m
Science FictionHorror

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is lost from radar before roaring back to Earth and crashing in a farmer's field. The rocket is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.

Part of the Quatermass (Hammer) Collection
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Brian Donlevy

Brian Donlevy

Prof. Bernard Quatermass

Richard Wordsworth

Richard Wordsworth

Victor Carroon

David King-Wood

David King-Wood

Dr. Gordon Briscoe

Jack Warner

Jack Warner

Inspector Lomax

Margia Dean

Margia Dean

Judith Carroon

Maurice Kaufmann

Maurice Kaufmann

Marsh

JW

John Wynn

Detective Sergeant Best

Harold Lang

Harold Lang

Christie

Directed by

Val Guest

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John Chard

8/10

4/24/2020

In my simple Bible way I did a lot of praying. When an experimental rocket ship crashes back down to Earth, Bernard Quatermass is baffled as to why three astronauts went up, but only one has returned. The returning astronaut is Victor Carroon and he's in a bad way. Unable to speak and going through some sort of metamorphosis, it's not long before he starts to become something that literally threatens all of mankind. Can Quatermass and his team of scientists stop the creeping unknown in its tracks?. The character of Bernard Quatermass was born out of the considerable brain of writer Nigel Kneale. A science boffin and defender of the Earth against other worldly beasties, Quatermass was first seen on the screen in the BBC TV serial in 1953. Here that bastion of British horror, Hammer F

CinemaSerf

6/10

11/14/2022

American scientist Brain Donlevy sends a rocket with three men into space; it comes back with only one and he is very, very sick. What happened to the other two - the ship was hermetically sealed? Well this decent British sci-fi/horror film follows the investigation as together with police officer Jack Warner they try to get to the bottom of things. Meantime, the sole survivor of the exploratory flight goes awol and we discover an alien creature is now on the loose on post war London and it is hungry! It's now race against time to stop it reproducing and taking over the world - and who better than our intrepid team to track it down and destroy it. This has been done on a pretty basic budget; but is well written and directed with a creative approach to the cinematography that rewards the vi

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