Quatermass 2 Movie Review

Second film based on Nigel Kneale's critically acclaimed 1953 BBC series Quatermass. British egghead Professor Quatermass is sent to investigate some abnormalities in a rural area. Soldiers and government officials in the area are behaving like brainwashed zombies. Meteorites are far too plentiful and tend to erupt and injure when approached. A large “food” processing plant has been set up with too much security for the professor's liking. When a friend is covered by, eaten away by, and killed by the food, the professor knows what must be done. Extremely well written (by Kneale and director Val Guest), Quatermass 2 can also be taken as an allegory for the dangers of an authoritarian government. Preceded by The Quatermass Experiment, and followed by Quatermass and the Pit. AKA: Enemy from Space.

1957 84m/B GB Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sidney James, Bryan Forbes, William Franklyn, Vera Day, John Van Eyssen, Michael Ripper, Michael Balfour, Tom Chatto, Percy Herbert; D: Val Guest; W: Val Guest, Nigel Kneale; C: Gerald Gibbs; M: James Bernard. VHS, Beta, LV FCT, CTH, SNC