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Quatermass Xperiment [Blu-ray] [1955] [US Import]

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  • Region: Region A/1 (Read more about DVD/Blu-ray formats.)
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  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsClassic Sci Fi
By D. I. Shipley VINE VOICE on 7 Jun. 2006
Format: DVD
The Quatermass Xperiment as it was titled for its cinema release, is very simply one of the British Film Industry's classic films. It was a trail blazer for the then fledgling Hammer Films, and because of its success, Hammer were able to go forward and make the incredible catalogue of films that they would eventually end up with.
Director Val Guest condenses the much longer TV series down into a 80 minute film. The result is a gem of a film that has stood the test of time, and is still a compelling watch.

Basically the plot sees the headstrong Professor Quatermass send a rocket into space without official clearance. The rocket subsequently returns to Earth but of the three crew, there is only one astronaut remaining on board.
This sole survivor is played by Richard Wordsworth (a descendant of the poet - William Wordsworth). He gives a compelling and unsettling performance as Victor Kerroon, a man who undergoing metamorphasis into something monstrous. His scene with the small girl on the London Docks is a powerful example of this, and the viewer can see many similarities with the famous scene from the original Frankenstein, where Boris Karloff's monster has a similar, almost surreal encounter with a small child.
Helping Quatermass is Jack Warner's Police inspector, a typically solid performance from Warner in a role which plays to his strengths.
Quatermass and the Police and Army face a race against time to track down this ever changing monstrousity before it is too late.
SFX are good for the time and can still stand muster with some of today's.
The atmosphere and sets are truly unique, and the viewer is treated to a chase amidst smoggy and still bomb damaged 1950s London. A particular setting which is both atmospheric and unsettling in its own right.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe Quatermass Experiment - a touch of real tragedy
By Humphrey Reader on 21 April 2004
Format: DVD
The plot of 'The Quatermass Experiment' is straightforward enough: Britain sends 3 men into space: 2 mysteriously disappear, and no. 3 (Victor Carroon) returns, very seriously ill. During the course of the film we watch helplessly as Carroon slowly transmutes into an alien monster.
Unlike so many sci-fi B movies including recent ones, this story generates an extraordinary amount of sympathy for the 'alien' predator. So often it's cardboard courageous humans against cardboard evil aliens (or, occasionally, over-sentimentalised ones). This film is on a different planet! The reason I say 'tragedy' is that we see at every stage how Carroon's humanity is struggling with the alien infestation and yet is ultimately doomed to fail. It is a tour-de-force performance by Richard Wordsworth (direct line descendent of the poet by the way). He is given just 2 or 3 words in the whole film with all the rest being achieved by body movements, gestures and, above all, an extraordinarily expressive face. Sometimes he's the pitiless alien, but sometimes also he's tragically human. Even where he kills there is evidence of some compunction or reluctance (especially a chemist whose shop the Carroon/Alien raids for drugs). He actually resists the urge to kill (and absorb on the alien's behalf) his wife and a little girl who chances on him whilst playing amongst the London docks.
Other nice touches are Mrs Carroon who shows up Quatermass's egoism very effectively, the solid senior policeman Lomax (Jack Warner), some amusing eccentrics like the bag lady played by Thora Hird, and the general air of English understatement and lack of panic. Little touches (Lomax the solid 'Bible man', Mrs Lomax with her teapot, the chemist's shop...Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsHave rocket, will transform
By Mr. Jonathon T. Beckett on 13 May 2010
Format: DVD
The rocket, the Q1, returns from space and crashes in the British countryside. One survivor, astronaut Victor Carroon staggers from the craft, but where have the other two crew members gone, and more importantly what has Carroon brought back to Earth with him? The man responsible for the space programme, Professor Bernard Quatermass(Brian Donlevy) soon finds himself in a race against time to save the world from a terrible threat from outer space!
I know strictly speaking that 'The Curse Of Frankenstein' was Hammer Films' first 'proper' horror film, but I like to think of this film as their first foray into horror territory. Okay, strictly speaking 'The Quatermass Experiment' is a classic science fiction film, but it does cross over the border into horror on many occasions. It was successful, and probably encouraged Hammer to continue down the path of making films to scare people, so we all have a lot to thank this film for.
It's not as accomplished as either its sequel, the classic Quatermass 2, or the third in the triology, Quatermass And The Pit, which was made by the same studio several years later, but this is an exciting, and at times genuinely creepy film in its own right.
One major critisism is the casting of Donlevy as Quatermass. I think it should be remembered that it was a very common practise to cast slightly over the hill American actors in leading roles in British films to assist box office takings. Forrest Tucker and Dean Jagger were also recruited by Hammer for this purpose. So Donlevy can hardly be blamed, although his one note, staccato delivery of his lines does take some getting used to. By the time he reprised the role in Quatermass 2, he was far more assured in the role, and delivered a far better performance.Read more ›
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