The Quatermass Xperiment (Guest, 1955)

This film is not currently available on DVD. Film Description A missile is launched by Professor Quatermass and his team but when it lands back in England two crew members have disappeared and the third, who is barely alive turns into a 'thing' that starts killing humans and animals to feed its transformation. The first of the 'Hammer horrors', it's spelling was changed to take advantage of its X-rated status.

Film Details Director Val Guest Starring Gordon Jackson, Jack Warner, Thora Hird, Brian Donlevy   Country UK Language ENGLISH   Year 1955

Reviews & Articles

Share your thoughts and opinions - write a review

Review by Barry Forshaw on 3rd April 2005

The reputation of Val Guest as a director grows ever greater, and the days when he was dismissed as a mere technician are long gone. This intelligent and stylish adaptation of the classic Nigel Kneale SF TV shows that once chilled the spine of the nation triumph over the rather stolid performance of American import Brian Donleavy in the title role as the curmudgeonly scientist, and look even today as two of most ambitious and intriguing SF films ever made in this country. Special effects technology may have moved on, but the skill and craftsmanship here is typical of Hammer in its heyday, before the studio lost its way in the latter years. With Quatermass and the Pit also available on DVD, collectors may now acquire the complete Nigel Kneale trilogy: even the rather compromised finale, The Quatermass Conclusion (with John Mills in the title role) has been notified for release.

View more reviews by Barry Forshaw

Browse all Film Reviews

Article - "Alien Invasion!" by MovieMail
Wednesday 1st March 2006

Space travel into the unknown is almost as old as cinema itself, first appearing with George Méliès' Trip to the Moon (1902), in which bewhiskered gentlemen climb into a rocket which is fired from a giant cannon into space, where they plop straight into the ma...  View article in full

Collections & Lists

This film is part of the following Film Collections

The Best of British Horror

Including: 28 Days Later, Alien, Allan Quatermain And The Lost City Of Gold, Altered States, An American Werewolf In London, Doctor Jekyll and Sister Hyde, Dont Look Now, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (1981) (BBC), Dr Phibes Rises Again, Dracula, Prince of Darkness.

View all collections

Create your own Film List!

Customers who bought this also bought...

Recommendations from fellow customers

A Warning to the Curious

by Lawrence Gordon Clark

Where The Sidewalk Ends

by Otto Preminger

The Signalman

by Lawrence Gordon Clark

Fallen Angel

by Otto Preminger

Whirlpool

by Otto Preminger

Other films by...

More films directed by Val Guest

Miss London Ltd

Bees In Paradise

Carry On Admiral

Dance Little Lady

Its A Wonderful World (1956)

View more >

More films starring Gordon Jackson

The Ipcress File

by Sidney J. Furie

Whisky Galore!

by Alexander Mackendrick

Against The Wind

by Charles Crichton

Hamlet (Richardson, 1969)

by Tony Richardson

Hell Drivers (1957)

by Cyril Endfield

View more >

More films starring Thora Hird

Talking Heads - The Complete Talking Heads

by T V

Flesh And Blood

by Terence Dudley

Flesh And Blood (Part 1)

by Terence Dudley

Flesh And Blood (Part 2)

by Terence Dudley

Hallelujah (Series 1)

by Ronnie Baxter

View more >

More films starring Jack Warner

The Blue Lamp

by Basil Dearden

Hue And Cry

by Charles Crichton

Against The Wind

by Charles Crichton

The Ladykillers (1955)

by Alexander Mackendrick

The Final Test

by Anthony Asquith

View more >

More films starring Brian Donlevy

Hammer Collection

by Clemens / Guest / Leslie

Written and Directed by Preston Sturges

by Preston Sturges

The Curse Of The Fly

by Don Sharp

Hangmen Also Die

by Fritz Lang

The Glass Key

by Stuart Heisler

View more >

For questions or assistance, call us on (+44) 0844 776 0900 or email on enquiries@moviemail-online.co.uk

© 2004-2007 MovieMail, Ltd., All Rights Reserved. Find out more about MovieMail