The Quatermass Xperiment
You Can't Escape It!
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 22 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: September 27, 2011
- Originally Released: 1955
- Label: MGM Archives
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Brian Donlevy & Jack Warner | |
| Performer: | Margia Dean, Thora Hird & Lionel Jeffries | |
| Directed by | Val Guest | |
| Screenplay by | Richard H. Landau & Val Guest | |
| Composition by | James Bernard |
Entertainment Reviews:
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... the film is never less than intriguing and, at is best, is haunting, horrific and riveting.
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Turner Classic Movies Online
It was the enormous success of this Hammer version of Nigel Kneale's TV series which began the whole horror boom in Britain.
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Time Out
Rating: 3/4 --
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.
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TV Guide
The movie was considered so shocking, gruesome, and adult that it received Britain's X certificate, meaning no one under 16 could be admitted.
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PopMatters
Rating: 4/5 --
The picture that helped to transform Hammer Films into an enduring fright factory, 1956's The Quatermass Xperiment earns its reputation as a legacy-hoisting hit.
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Blu-ray.com
A thoughtful, hard-hitting, and bizarrely touching landmark of the sci-fi genre, endlessly referenced and recycled in subsequent film and TV.
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Film4
Rating: 3/5 --
Hammer's film of Nigel Kneale's ground-breaking television serial was a huge success, encouraging the studio to concentrate on the production of horror films - in that regard, it can truly be said to have changed the course of British film history.
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Radio Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
A spacecraft returns to earth with only one terrified passenger left aboard...and a creeping monster.
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- UPC: 883904252238
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