In the countryside of London, a rocket crashes on a farm and Professor Bernard Quatermass and Scotland Yard Inspector Lomax arrive in the spot. The Quatermass Xperiment betters other modestly budgeted monster thrillers of its day because its creature is much more than a man in a scary costume. Predicting the themes of early David Cronenberg films, Xperiment taps our primal fears of personal decay and disease through the pitiful, suffering astronaut played by Richard Wordsworth. A malfunction sends the rocket and its three... See full summary » Stars: Reginald Tate, Isabel Dean, Hugh Kelly
Now I know: it's the arrogant, cantankerous professor, Bernard Quatermass (Brian Donlevy) and his experimental manned rockets flights, which are responsible for bringing a deadly alien lifeform back to earth - something he's oddly unapologetic for, and seems to … The movie has had a rocky history on home video as seen, but all legitimate discs have offered the original British version.
Directed by Val Guest.
More existential than the movie version and visually uneven, acting is so wooden even for a brit production that even the Blue Fairy herself couldn't get a single actor to look or sound human.
With Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Thora Hird.
The Quatermass Xperiment was aired as serials before it was adapted into a full blown production. Filmed live with a fantastic ensemble cast, "The Quatermass Experiment" takes a sci-fi cult classic into the 21st Century. Professor Bernard Quatermass' manned rocket ship returns to Earth, but two of the astronauts are missing and the survivor seems ill and unable to communicate.
The KL Studio Classics Blu-ray of The Quatermass Xperiment is a very welcome addition to British Sci-Fi on HD, just one week after the BFI's release of another classic by the same director, The Day the Earth Caught Fire..
The rocket was launched by Prof. Quatermass with the astronauts Victor Carroon, Greene and Reichebheim; however only Carroon is found very sick in the cabin.
The Quatermass Xperiment was one of the first of the now famous Hammer Horror films. Here is the Hammer Film based on the first Serial … This genre of horror injected new life into a genre that somehow lost its horrifying appeal. Bernard Quatermass heads the futuristic Experimental Rocket Group whose greatest voyage is coming to an end, but after a dramatic crash landing Victor Carroon begins to metamorphose into a strange, deadly alien, setting off a race against time to save humanity. The Quatermass Xperiment is a slow procedural film, so if you are expecting some prime 1950s era kitsch, there isn’t much of that here.There are a lot of lengthy talking scenes of scientists figuring out the mystery at hand. They couldn't get the rights however, so they made X the Unknown a movie with an extremely similar plot-structure and atmosphere to the first with a highly Quatermass-like hero named Doctor Adam Royston. Publication date 2019-07-31 Topics Quatermass Xperiment, Quatermass, Nigel Kneal, Hammer Films, Science Fiction, Horror Language English. Quatermass 1: The Quatermass Xperiment by Donald Phillips.
Professor Bernard Quatermass, Director General of the British Experimental Rocket Group, launches the first manned space flight from Australia. The Quatermass Xperiment is a milestone, as Hammer's first horror film. Modern retelling of a Nigel Kneale story of an ill fated extraterrestrial flight headed by the famous (Or Infamous) Dr. Bernard Quatermass. Captain Ersatz: After the success of The Quatermass Xperiment Hammer immediately wanted to make a sequel.