Rotten
Val Guest's direction is as uncertain as script on which he collabs with Nigel Kneale [author of original story], with the result that all characters are stodgy.
Variety Staff, Variety
Quatermass 2
A horrible enemy from the unknown strikes terror across the earth!
1957 · 1h 25m · APPROVED
Horror, Science Fiction
Directed by
Val Guest
Overview
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.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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75%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Despite some clumsy moments that have not worn well, it remains one of the more bizarre and impressive of the early British horror pictures.
Time Out
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