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Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Richard Wordsworth

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Unrated, 1 hr. 25 min.

Directed by: Val Guest

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  • mjgildea
    November 24, 2010
    mjgildea
    The Quatermass Xperiment doesn't quite live up to all the hype as the granddaddy of Hammer Horror. Some parts were legitimately creepy (the cockpit film was disturbing in a last 2 minutes of Blair Witch Project kind of way) and the last 15 minutes were magnificently photographed ... read more-- like Third Man magnificently photographed (especially the nighttime zoo scene.) Thse praises aside, all you're really looking at is a lot of running around, some great-looking corpses and a brief but final shot of a really cool-looking creature. It's definitely worth a watch, but not necessarily worth all the trouble of getting a hard-to-acquire copy.

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Critic Reviews

Kim Newman
May 14, 2008
Kim Newman, Empire Magazine

A number of decent performances and a gritty realistic view of London makes this little sci-fi spin-off still worth a look. Full Review

May 14, 2008
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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. Full Review

February 9, 2006
Time Out

It was the enormous success of this Hammer version of Nigel Kneale's TV series which began the whole horror boom in Britain. Full Review

Gregory Weinkauf
October 22, 2003
Gregory Weinkauf, New Times

Yeah! Quatermass! Yeah!

Ali Catterall
May 24, 2003
Ali Catterall, Film4

A thoughtful, hard-hitting, and bizarrely touching landmark of the sci-fi genre, endlessly referenced and recycled in subsequent film and TV. Full Review

Ken Hanke
November 6, 2002
Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

One of the few truly great sci-fi films.

Dennis Schwartz
September 24, 2001
Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

This shoestring budget sci-fier began the craze in Great Britain for the modern horror film. Full Review

Emanuel Levy
August 11, 2005
Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

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Nicolas Lacroix
November 12, 2002
Nicolas Lacroix, Showbizz.net

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