Quatermass 2

1957 "A horrible enemy from the unknown strikes terror across the earth!"
Quatermass 2
6.8| 1h25m| en| More Info
Released: 24 May 1957 Released
Producted By: Hammer Film Productions
Country: United Kingdom
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In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.

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huutheheckcares It's just an overshoot, that's all. And those big things inside the domes? Well, they were just part of the process to make the wonderful synthetic food! Now you had to go and muck it all up. Well, we will just have to build another plant elsewhere to make more of the genetically altered food you are now buying at your local supermarket. Could you do us a favor too? If you find anymore overshoots, please return them to us at your earliest convenience. You will find the expiration date on the underside - yes that's it...turn it over and look...oops, now don't panic...ignore that old guy that tells you "put it down...on the floor" - there you'll feel better in a few moments. Bring the empty container to us and you'll get your very own rebreather mask and a machine gun that goes ratatatatatattat, KAZING! ENJOY!
cinemajesty Movie Review: "Quatermass: Enemy from Space" (1957) From Hammer Studios, Essex, England comes the second movie on the character of Scientist Quatermass, performed with ease and delight by actor Brian Donlevy (1901-1972), who gets directed by Val Guest (1911-2006) through a scenario of village people get burnt-marked out of a mysterious chemical factory plant in the desert. Quatermass, always on tight budget with his own research bureau/laboratory, starts to investigate and uncovers his stolen moon base plans put into reality, where again an extraterrestrial virus dwells to gigantic showdown-bringing proportions.The story-line created by writer/creator Nigel Kneale (1922-2006) may not be very new by the end of the 1950s with Hollywood productions already mass producing since the early days of that decade, yet under the direction of Val Guest, his uplifting professional cast and an impressive utilization of an estimate 100,000.00 Dollar budget making it appearing close to high-end standards in this time period of motion picture history, where this picture can be considered as well-crafted gem under a mass effect in times of excessive science fiction movie supply.© 2017 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)
punishmentpark This sequel to 'The Quatermass experiment' has a few details in common with it (professor Quatermass and evil aliens), but that's about it. Here, an important location was provided by oil company Shell, so don't look surprised if the monsters turn out to be looking like giant mobile oil-spills.The story is very doable, the atmosphere and locations are pretty nice once again, and there are plenty of not so much scary, but certainly fun enough monsters. This one does lack a character like Victor Carroon, but I suppose you can't always have it all.A good 7 out of 10.
1bilbo The really irritating thing about this film is the way Brian Donlevy cuts people off when they speak to him – won't listen and then stomps out of the room.Is it a shame because the whole premise of the story is quite good – this film reminds me of "X the unknown" which is far superior.The women in the film are dispatched to "Keep everybody in coffee," whilst the men get on with saving the earth from invaders. Sign of the times.The other poor item in this film is the dialogue – one could be forgiven for believing that the actors made it up as they went along. Also opening up with machine gun fire at every opportunity with nearly all the bullets missing!Poor Hammer films ! They probably had to do this on a shoestring with backers screaming for a quick return – with a little more care this could have been a great film.