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.
1923, London, England, UK
August 6, 1924 in Mile End, London, England, UK
15 February 1915, Belfast, Ireland [now Northern Ireland], UK
May 4, 1911 in London, England, UK
7 April 1922, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1913, England, UK
6 July 1926, Motherwell, Scotland, UK
19 December 1923, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
23 August 1922, King's Cross, London, England, UK
September 22, 1917 in Kings Norton, Birmingham, England, UK
October 22, 2003
Yeah! Quatermass! Yeah!
November 06, 2002
One of the few truly great sci-fi films.
December 17, 2011
... the film is never less than intriguing and, at is best, is haunting, horrific and riveting.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
September 24, 2001
This shoestring budget sci-fier began the craze in Great Britain for the modern horror film.
