The Quatermass Experiment Movie Review

Preceding The Blob by two years, this excellent British production (from the Hammer Studio) is the story of an astronaut who returns to earth unknowingly carrying an alien infestation that causes him to mutate into a ever-growing giant-tentacled blob-like creature. The film features the first big-screen appearance of Dr. Bernard Quatermass (played with pushy perfection by Brian Donlevy) in a tense adaptation by director Val Guest and co-screenwriter Richard Landau of Nigel Kneale's first Quatermass BBC teleserial. Not as bleak, and not quite as good as the 1957 sequel, Quatermass 2, but still a well acted, well written, sci-fi classic. Known as The Creeping Unknown when released in U.S., the just-released videotape is the original “international” version with about three minutes of footage never-before-seen in the states. AKA: The Creeping Unknown.

1955 78m/B GB Brian Donlevy, Margia Dean, Jack Warner, Richard Wordsworth; D: Val Guest; W: Richard H. Landau, Val Guest; M: James Bernard. VHS NOS, SNC