The Quatermass Xperiment

The Quatermass Xperiment

You Can't Escape It!

1955 · 82 min · ★ 6.5 · Science Fiction, Horror

The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is lost from radar before roaring back to Earth and crashing in a farmer's field. The rocket is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.

Directed by Val Guest · Written by Richard H. Landau

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