I had apparently watched this years ago, but I had almost no memory of doing so. Most of the film was fresh to me.
This Quatermass is an arrogant ass throughout. It is really odd watching a film where your protagonist isn’t the least bit likable!
Good story and well acted, but it feels abridged. Like a multiparty series was created and then severely chopped to make a single movie
The Quatermass Xperiment
You Can't Escape It!
Rating
3.5 (1)
Release Date
8/26/1955Runtime
82 minsOverview
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and 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.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
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How It Feels
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A taut, visceral horror film where the return of a lone astronaut from space becomes a nightmare of slow, horrifying change. Watches like a disease spreading through London, patient, inexorable, and deeply wrong.
Mood
Dread-soakedUnsettlingTenseBleak
Themes
SurvivalIdentityTechnology
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Slow-burn
Look
Black and whiteNaturalisticDocumentary-like
Structure
Linear
Heads up
Graphic violenceBody horror
Brian Donlevy
Bernard Quatermass
Richard Wordsworth
Victor Carroon
David King-Wood
Gordon Briscoe
Jack Warner
Inspector Lomax
Margia Dean
Judith Carroon
Harold Lang
Christie
Lionel Jeffries
Blake
Thora Hird
Rosie Wrigley
Gordon Jackson
BBC TV producer
Sam Kydd
Police Sergeant Questioning Rosie
Maurice Kaufmann
Marsh (uncredited)
John Wynn
Detective Sergeant Best (uncredited)
Reviews
Quatermass (Hammer series)
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