Quatermass 2

Quatermass 2

A horrible enemy from the unknown strikes terror across the earth!

1957 · 85 min · ★ 6.4 · Science Fiction, Horror

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.

Directed by Val Guest · Written by Nigel Kneale

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