The Quatermass Xperiment 1955 Based on the BBC TV production The Quatermass Experiment by Nigel Kneale, screenplay by Richard Landau and Val Guest, directed by Val Guest. Produced by Anthony Hinds for Hammer Film Productions. I watched the Kino Lorber Blu-ray.
Brian Donlevy plays Professor Bernard Quatermass, he's waiting for the rocket ship he launched into space to return. The ship crashes and only one man of the three man crew emerges. He's damaged and can hardly communicate with anyone. The only evidence of the other two are their still sealed spacesuits. They take the astronaut to the Rocket Group's hospital to see Doctor Briscoe and Doctor Blake. They don't know what happened to him.
The Astronaut mutates, his hand merges with a cactus, he kills the man his wife sent to get him out of the hospital. He scares his wife and goes on the run. He kills some people who cross his path, eventually he mutates so much they need to kill him. It's not a good film to recruit astronauts but there's no room in science for feelings.
It's a pretty good film and I've seen it a few times before. The KL has two commentaries, one with Val Guest and another by Gary Gerani. There are some interviews and featurettes with Val Guest. They don't have the US version of the film, The Creeping Unknown, but they do have a featurette on the differences between the two versions. Over all a nice Blu-ray, one I plan to watch again sometime in the future.
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