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A.k.a.
The Creeping Unknown
Year
1955
Runtime
82 min.
Director
Val Guest
Genres
Sci-Fi, Horror
Rating *
6.7
Votes *
4,588
Checks
1,095
Favs
34
Dislikes
7
Favs/checks
3.1% (1:32)
Favs/dislikes
5:1
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    badblokebob

    A thrilling, imaginative, and creepy sci-fi/horror. I don’t know how widely seen it would’ve been back on its original release, but there are similarities to everything from episodes of The Twilight Zone to Watchmen. 3 years ago
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    Siskoid

    The Quatermass Xperiment adapts the Quatermass tele-play for the movie screen and might just make me wish I were watching the original instead (only two episodes were recorded, the rest broadcast live and lost). Not that it doesn't have some very interesting body horror effects for its day (or any day), but its procedural style isn't helped by Brian Donlevy's plain, workmanlike performance (I'm not gonna hold his American citizenship against him, even if I don't see why a Brit couldn't have played a quintessential British hero, but the performance is just so ordinary). For Doctor Who fans, of course, this is important viewing. Quatermass and its success for the BBC paved the way for the long-running program, or at least served as powerful inspiration once the show started doing science fiction-horror. Xperiment's plot, about a space virus that converts human flesh to alien and threatens to spread all over the world until a meddling scientist-adventurer finds a common cure, became the template for many a Doctor Who story. That story, told for the second time, still packs a horror punch, but is kind of dull as a drama. 5 years 10 months ago
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  1. This movie ranks #244 in TSZDT's The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films
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  2. This movie ranks #345 in Jennifer Eiss's 500 Essential Cult Movies
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