The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
1955 · Feature film · 78 min · dir. Val Guest
You Can't Escape It!
- Horror
- Science Fiction
- monster film
Synopsis
The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is lost from radar before roaring back to Earth and crashing in a farmer's field. The rocket 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.
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Details
- Director
- Val Guest
- Writer
- Val Guest
- Composer
- James Bernard
- Cinematography
- Walter J. Harvey
- Studio
- Hammer Film Productions
- Released
- 1955-09-26
- Series
- Quatermass (Hammer) Collection
- Running time
- 78 minutes
Cast & crew
Val Guest Director
Sam Kydd
Richard Wordsworth
Margia Dean- Arthur Lovegrove
Harold Lang- Ernest Hare
- Bartlett Mullins
Thora Hird
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Old Alien Invasion Movie · AngelMatrix77 · 2024-03-09
Great film. Reminded me of the Thing from Another World 1951. Great dialogue. I love these old movies.
IMPRESSIVE & CREEPY, SCIENCE-FICTION SUBMISSION · MichaelHousel · 2025-05-27
THE QUATERMASS XPERIMENT (THE CREEPING UNKNOWN) is an outstanding, stylish, Hammer adaptation from Val Guest and Nigel Kneale. Brian Donlevy’s petulant Quatermass actually works better than one might expect, giving the tension an extra, time-is-of-the-essence edge. Richard Wordsworth is also remarkable as the anguished astronaut. One can feel his pain and desperation. His scene with the girl and her doll is quite poignant. (As a side note, the story plays in tune with Robert Day/John Croydon's FIRST MAN INTO SPACE, and one can see the influence the picture had on William Sach's THE INCREDIBLE…
