The Quatermass Xperiment
1955 · Movie · Approved · 82 min · ★ 6.5 · 88% critics
After Britain’s first manned rocket crashes back to Earth, only one crew member is found inside—alive, silent, and rapidly changing. As scientists and police search for answers, a growing threat slips into the city, turning a baffling mystery into a tense race to protect the public.
Based on The Quatermass Experiment
Also known as The Creeping Unknown
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Details
- Years
- 1955
- Release date
- 1955-09-26
- Language
- English
- Rated
- Approved
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Critic score
- 88/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (229 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a moody, retro sci-fi horror that leans on suspense and unsettling ideas more than gore, in the vein of The Thing from Another World; Not for you if you dislike slow, dialogue-heavy investigations.
Pros: tense, gritty atmosphere; strong central performance; intriguing sci-fi mystery | Cons: slow early stretch; dated science details; talky police procedure
Themes
- london, england
- transformation
- alien life-form
- rocket
- rocket crash
- escaped patient
- man hunt
- hospital
- black and white
- metamorphosis
- alien monster
- space exploration
- +8 more
Cast & crew
Brian Donlevy
as Prof. Bernard Quatermass
Richard Wordsworth
as Victor Carroon
David King-Wood
as Dr. Gordon Briscoe
Jack Warner
as Inspector Lomax
Margia Dean
as Judith Carroon
Maurice Kaufmann
as Marsh
- JW
John Wynn
as Detective Sergeant Best
Harold Lang
as Christie
Lionel Jeffries
as Blake
Thora Hird
as Rosie Wrigley
Directed by Val Guest