FilmSci-Fi Horror Monster & Creature Psychological

Quatermass 21957

Name: Quatermass 2
Genre: Sci-Fi Horror, Monster & Creature, Psychological, Cosmic & Lovecraftian
Released: 1957-06-17
Rating: 7

“A horrible enemy from the unknown strikes terror across the earth!”

Directed by Val Guest

7.0

Crypt Score

Blended from 3 sources

IMDb 6.8Rotten Tomatoes 83%TMDB 6.4

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#18·Top Cosmic & Lovecraftian Films

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Year

1957

Runtime

85 min

The premise

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.

Horror Vault's take

When Professor Quatermass stumbles upon a secret industrial complex that eerily mirrors his own blueprints for a lunar colony, he senses something is deeply, dangerously wrong. Strange meteorite showers and an impenetrable veil of official secrecy point toward a threat far larger than any earthly conspiracy. This lean, black-and-white British chiller builds its dread through creeping paranoia rather than spectacle, asking an unsettling question: how do you fight an enemy that hides inside the institutions meant to protect you?

Content: Scenes Of Mob Violence, Depictions Of Toxic Substance Exposure, Mild Body Horror Imagery