

The Quatermass Xperiment
You Can't Escape It!
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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- Language
- English
- london, england
- transformation
- alien life-form
- rocket
- rocket crash
- escaped patient
- man hunt
- hospital
- black and white
- campy
- metamorphosis
- alien monster
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalDistributed by United Artists Corp.1 Jun 1956
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG26 Sept 1955
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1211 May 1956
GreeceGR
- Digital / OTTK12Cinobo25 Oct 2022
ItalyIT
- TheatricalT25 Jun 1956
JapanJP
- Theatrical31 Oct 1955
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The Quatermass Xperiment was released on 26 September 1955.
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2- J8/10
John Chard
4/24/2020
In my simple Bible way I did a lot of praying. When an experimental rocket ship crashes back down to Earth, Bernard Quatermass is baffled as to why three astronauts went up, but only one has returned. The returning astronaut is Victor Carroon and he's in a bad way. Unable to speak and going through some sort of metamorphosis, it's not long before he starts to become something that literally threatens all of manki…
- C6/10
CinemaSerf
11/14/2022
American scientist Brain Donlevy sends a rocket with three men into space; it comes back with only one and he is very, very sick. What happened to the other two - the ship was hermetically sealed? Well this decent British sci-fi/horror film follows the investigation as together with police officer Jack Warner they try to get to the bottom of things. Meantime, the sole survivor of the exploratory flight goes awol and …
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