Quatermass 2

Quatermass 2

A horrible enemy from the unknown strikes terror across the earth!

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Release Date

5/24/1957

Runtime

85 mins

Overview

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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A creeping sci-fi nightmare about invasion and infiltration, where the real horror isn't the alien creatures, it's how easily they exploit human greed and institutional indifference. British and bureaucratic in its slow-burn dread.

Mood

Dread-soakedParanoidTenseBleak

Themes

CorruptionSurvivalPower

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

Black and whiteNaturalisticDocumentary-like

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Graphic violence

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