The Quatermass Xperiment

Starring: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, et al.

A spacecraft returns to earth with only one terrified passenger left aboard...and a creeping monster.

• Format: Blu-ray
• Language: English
• UPC: 738329152925
• Release Date: December 2014
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: Kino Video
• Director: Val Guest
• Starring: Brian Donlevy, Jack Warner, Margia Dean, Richard Wordsworth, David King Wood, Thora Hird, Gordon Jackson, Harold Lang, Lionel Jeffries, Maurice Kaufmann
• Runtime: 1 hour, 22 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: multiple_formats
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 7.5" x 0.7"

Customer Reviews

More Hammer – less horror.

A spaceship landing nose-down surprises some country folk. Turns out that Professor Bernard Quatermass jumped the gun and sent a ship into space before the conservative agencies could stop him. Of course, this means something has to go wrong. Sure enough, three Astronauts wet up, and one came back in less-than-perfect form. Looks like something extraterrestrial is intending to make munchies of all of Earth's flora and fauna. Can Quatermass stop the creature before we become space-chow? And will Quatermass learn his lesson? "The Creeping Unknown" (1955) was directed by Val Guest. Was based on the screenplay from a BBC TV serial 1953 BBC Television serial, "The Quatermass Experiment". The voice-over jokes about this version compress the first Episode of the serial down to one and a half minutes. Hammer Replaced Reginald Tate with Brian Donlevy as Professor Bernard Quatermass. This made for a different type of character but did not distract from the story. Brian Donlevy was added for U.S. audience appeal. In the next Hammer film, “The Abominable Snowman,” he used Forest Tucker. I kept staring at Lionel Jeffries, trying to remember where I saw him before. “Call Me Bwana” (1963). I loved the Technology that they used from a fire engine that looked like it was out of “Fahrenheit 451” (1966). The gauges in the spaceship have speed, altitude, thrust, flux density, etc. I have only seen the Blu-Ray Kino Lorber version, which is in a 1:66:1 frame format. It has several DVD extras, including a voice-over review. See a newer version in “Shatner in Space” (2021).