The Quatermass Xperiment
Three astronauts are launched into space, but the spacecraft returns to earth with only one survivor named Victor Carroon, bringing with him something strange causing the guy to be real sick. He then begins mutating into a blood thirsty monster.
August 27, 1925 in Plymouth, Devon, England, UK
December 5, 1900 in Highgate, London, England, UK
29 June 1927, Gorleston, Norfolk, England, UK
5 December 1930, Marylebone, London, England, UK
May 10, 1918 in Banbury, Oxfordshire, England, UK
24 October 1905, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK
1913, England, UK
1925, Southport, Lancashire, England, UK
May 14, 2008
A number of decent performances and a gritty realistic view of London makes this little sci-fi spin-off still worth a look.
February 09, 2006
It was the enormous success of this Hammer version of Nigel Kneale's TV series which began the whole horror boom in Britain.
May 24, 2003
A thoughtful, hard-hitting, and bizarrely touching landmark of the sci-fi genre, endlessly referenced and recycled in subsequent film and TV.
December 17, 2011
... the film is never less than intriguing and, at is best, is haunting, horrific and riveting.
November 06, 2002
One of the few truly great sci-fi films.
May 14, 2008
This film featuring the super-scientist Quatermass was Hammer's first international hit and moved the studio to do films in the sci-fi and horror genres.
September 24, 2001
This shoestring budget sci-fier began the craze in Great Britain for the modern horror film.
November 17, 2011
This is Hammer's first major horror/science-fiction hit, but almost as notable is the fact that its doomed astronaut is the founding member of the studio's tragic rogues' gallery of transformed innocents -- monsters that didn't ask for their fates.
October 22, 2003
Yeah! Quatermass! Yeah!
February 16, 2016
The playing, as usual in films of this type, is serviceable rather than distinguished, with Brian Donlevy as a brusque and peremptory Quatermass and Jack Warner as the sturdily dependable representative of Scotland Yard.
